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Staphyleaceae Turpinia occidentalis (Sw.) Don

| | © W.D. Hawthorne

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Specimen information

Collection Date
13/06/2001

Collector
W.D. Hawthorne, S.Cable & D. Jules

Specimen Number
497

Location
Path around Grand Etang Lake.

Notes
Tree 16 m tall. BARK: smooth, yellow-brown. SLASH: fibrous, soft, pale orange-brown, smell faintly fruity. LEAVES: teeth pointing upwards above the plane of the lamina, nodes of leaflets swollen. FLOWERS: 5 overlapping tepals, 5 stamens, 3 loculi, seeds with ruminate endosperm. Leaves taken from sucker shoot. (RHS colour code: Leaf upper =137A, below=137C)

Coordinates
Latitude: 12.060000 N   Longitude: 61.420000 W   Altitude: 600