Diplocyclos palmatus (L.) Jeffrey APNI* Synonyms: Bryonopsis laciniosa APNI*
Description: Perennial herb with stems to 6 m long.
Leaves with lamina 4–12 cm long and wide, deeply palmately 3–7-lobed, margins toothed, glabrescent or scabrous; petiole 2–8 cm long, with a few prickly hairs.
Flowers clustered, 0–8 males mixed with 0–5 females. Male flowers on pedicels 5–20 mm long. Female flowers on pedicels 1–5 mm long. Corolla lobes 6–9 mm long, white or greenish.
Fruit ± globose, 15–25 mm diam., glabrous, red with white stripes; seeds obovate, 5–8 mm long.
Distribution and occurrence: mostly in or near warmer rainforest, especially in disturbed areas; north of the upper Hastings R.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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