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Rose marara
Pseudoweinmannia lachnocarpa
Pseudoweinmannia lachnocarpa is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. Common names include Rose Marara, Mararie, Scrub Rosewood and Red Carabeen. The species name lachnocarpa is from the Greek, referring to the "woolly fruit". The genus name refers to the similarity of another genus, Weinmannia, after the German eighteenth century pharmacist J.W. Weinmann.
From the article Pseudoweinmannia lachnocarpa on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
A small to large tree, up to 40 metres tall, and a very wide butt of 2.5 metres. The base of the tree is often significantly and widely buttressed. The thin bark is grey or fawn. Rough to touch with small pustules and scales. Small branches smooth, greyish white or brown. With green at the tips and white oval shaped lenticels. Leaves are in threes, opposite on the stem. Leaflets 3 to 15 cm long, 1 to 5 cm wide. Elliptic in shape, toothed, glossy green and almost without leaf stalks. Leaf veins raised and noticeable on both surfaces.
Flowers and fruit. White flowers form in August on racemes, about 5 cm long. As with the related coachwood, the flowers have no petals. Fruit matures from February to April, being an ovate capsule, 6 to 9 mm in diameter, covered in golden hairs. Seeds are egg shaped, 1 mm in diameter. Germination from fresh seed is unreliable.
== References ==
Range & habitat
This tree is found in prime rainforest situations, on the better alluvial and volcanic soils with high rainfall. In riverine, littoral, tropical and sub tropical rainforest from the Richmond River, New South Wales to Cooktown in tropical Queensland.
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 428505.