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Ehretia membranifolia R.Br.
Family Boraginaceae
Common name: Peach Bush

Ehretia membranifolia R.Br. APNI*

Description: Tall shrub or small tree, 3–12 m high, ± glabrous; bark pale grey, smooth, shed in thin, hard flakes.

Leaves lanceolate to narrow-ovate; lamina 3.5–9 cm long, mostly 1–2 cm wide, apex obtuse to acute, margins entire, lamina glabrous, veins oblique; petiole 5–20 mm long.

Inflorescence an open, dichotomously branched cyme. Calyx pubescent. Corolla c. 2 mm long and 3 mm diam., yellow-green; lobes 1–1.5 mm long. Anthers exserted. Ovary 2-locular with 2 ovules per loculus; style exserted.

Drupe with 2–4 pyrenes, c. 3 mm diam., red.


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Flowering: August–May.

Distribution and occurrence: north from Gunnedah district.

Grows in dry rainforest or scrubs, or woodland on rocky outcrops.
NSW subdivisions: NWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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