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Family: Meliaceae
Melia azedarach

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 384 (1753) var. australasica (Adr. Juss.)C. DC. in DC. & C. DC., Monogr. Phanerog. 1:452 (1878).

Synonymy: M. australasica Adr. Juss., Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 19:257 (1830); M. composita sensu Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:380 (1863), non Willd. , Melia azedarach

Common name: White cedar, kooribill.

Description:
Trees usually under 10 m high; the young shoots, leaves and inflorescences densely stellate-tomentose but becoming glabrous later; leaves up to 80 cm long; leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, usually less than 6 cm long; panicles shorter than the leaves.

Sepals ovate, minute, stellate-hairy; petals 6-8 mm long, lilac-coloured; staminal tube sparsely hairy, with more hairs in the mouth; ovary 5-celled.

Drupe ovoid or ellipsoid, usually 12-15 mm long, yellow-orange.

Published illustration: Rotherham et al. (1975) Flowers and plants of New South Wales and southern Queensland, fig. 314.

Distribution:  Planted as an ornamental and occasionally escaping.

S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, SL, SE.   native to W. Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.   New Guinea.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: spring and early summer.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: This species occurs, in other varieties, widely in Asia.

Author: Not yet available


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