Acradenia frankliniae

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Phylogeny & links to associated information

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Rosids > Malvids >  Sapindales > Rutaceae  > Acradenia frankliniae

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Plant  information

Common name:               Whitey wood    

Conservation status:   unknown

Etymology:   

•  The botanical name is derived from the Greek acron (tip) and adenos (gland) 

• The specific epithet (frankiniae) honours "Lady Franklin"

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are arranged in panicles, in leaf axils and on the ends of branchlets, and are 20–50 mm long

• The petals are white or creamy white, 4.5–6 mm long with a few soft hairs on the back

• Flowering occurs from November to February

Fruit:                         

• Mature fruits have been recorded from February to May

Leaves:         

•  Leaves are trifoliate

• The leaflets narrow elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes wavy near the tip and have prominent glands

• The leaves are 20–60 mm long and 5–20 mm wide on a petiole 3–8 mm long

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

Stem & branches:        

• Hairy, glandular-warty branchlets

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A shrub or tree that grows to a height of about 7 m 

Habitat:   

• Rainforest from sea level to an altitude of 200 m 

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to Tasmania

• Whitey wood grows in western Tasmania from the Pieman River south to the Gordon River

Additional notes:     

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acradenia_frankliniae  (2023)