Gymnostoma australianum 

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Rosids  > Fagales > Casuarinaceae > Gymnostoma australianum

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Plant  information

Common name:               Daintree Pine

• Also, Daintree Oak

Conservation status:   Vulnerable

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

• Separate male and female flowers (unisexual)

Fruit:                         

• Mature trees bear cone–structure fruits 7–15 mm long X 8–15 mm wide

• When ripe the cone's numerous valves open to release the dark–coloured winged seeds 7–8 mm long

Leaves:         

Stem & branches:     

• It grows into a small tree of up to 7 m tall

Roots:         

• The roots have nitrogen-fixing nodules

Habit:        

• Small tree 

Habitat:   

• It usually grows in open, sunny, long-term rainforest gaps, ranging from the lowlands to the uplands, and from regularly flooded areas alongside water courses through to rocky or exposed, wet, cloudy, mountain top situations,

• Recorded collections from sea level to 1,350 m  altitude 

Distribution:                  

•  Endemic to a restricted area of the Daintree tropical rainforests region, within the Wet Tropics of north-eastern Queensland

Additional notes:     

• Superficially they look like well known scale–leaved gymnosperm trees species, such as Cupressus in the northern hemisphere and Callitris in the southern hemisphere

Sources of information:

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