Family: Malvaceae
Brachychiton gregorii
Citation:
F. Muell., Pl. Indig. Col. Vic. 1:157 (1862).
Synonymy: Sterculia diversifolia Don vat. (?)occidentalis Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:229 (1863).
Common name: Desert kurrajong.
Description:
Almost glabrous usually erect tree to 10 m high; leaves evergreen but shed during dry periods, on petioles 3.5-14 cm long; blade 9-20 cm long, deeply 3- or 5-lobed; the lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate.
Flowers subsessile, in axillary panicles usually less than 10 cm long; calyx petaloid, stellate-hairy outside, glabrous inside, pale-yellow, often reddish on the margins, broadly campanulate, usually 8-15 mm long, the lobes equalling or longer than the tube.
Follicles 2-5 cm long, glabrous, more or less ovoid, with a short erect or recurved beak, blackish, with 6-12 seeds.
Published illustration:
Boomsma (1981) Native trees of South Australia, p. 88.
Distribution:
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Occurs on sand.
S.Aust.: NW. W.Aust.; N.T.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: probably mainly Oct. — Dec.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
There are two commonly cultivated ornamental trees. B. populneus (Schott)R. Br. (kurrajong) has creamy-white flowers and B. acerifolius F. Muell. (flame tree) scarlet flowers.
Author:
Not yet available
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