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Tabernaemontana pandacaqui Lam.
Family Apocynaceae
Common name: Banana Bush, Ya Yang

Tabernaemontana pandacaqui Lam. APNI*

Synonyms: Ervatamia angustisepala (Benth.) Domin APNI*

Description: Shrub to 3 m high, glabrous.

Leaves elliptic to oblanceolate, 5–18 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, apex ± short-acuminate, base gradually narrowed, lamina soft, glabrous; base of petiole expanded into a small erect, ovate appendage appressed to the branchlet and enclosing the axillary bud; petiole 3–15 mm long.

Cymes axillary, shorter than leaves. Flowers 15–20 mm diam., white, fragrant. Calyx lobes c. 2 mm long. Corolla tube 10–15 mm long, lobes 6–8 mm long, asymmetric.

Follicles narrow-ovoid or narrow ellipsoid with acuminate apex, 1–4 cm long, 8–10 mm diam., green and turning yellow; seeds 3–16, embedded in sticky red pulp.


Flower
Photo G. Harden

Fruit
Photo J. & P. Edwards

Other photo
Photo T.M. Tame

Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: spring–summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in warmer rainforest, north from Manning R.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by G. J. Harden & J. B. Williams
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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