Pouteria myrsinoides

Pouteria myrsinoides is an Australian tree in the family Sapotaceae. The common names include yellow plumwood, axe-handle wood and blunt-leaved coondoo. It occurs in seaside rainforests and drier rainforests from the Forster, New South Wales to the Lakeland Downs in tropical Queensland. The subspecies reticulata occurs on Lord Howe Island and in New Caledonia.

Yellow plumwood
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Genus: Pouteria
Species:
P. myrsinoides
Binomial name
Pouteria myrsinoides
(F.Muell.) Jessup
Synonyms
  • Pouteria myrsinoides auct. non (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) H.Baehni
  • Pouteria myrsinifolia (F.Muell.) Jessup
  • Planchonella myrsinoides auct. non (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) S.T.Blake ex Francis

It is a small tree up to 12 metres tall with a stem diameter of 25 cm. The leaves are 2 to 10 cm long and 1 to 4 cm wide. Flowering occurs between May and November, sometimes as early as February. The fruit is a thin fleshed, purple/black berry, 1.5 to 3 cm long, containing one to three seeds.[1]

The specific epithet myrsinoides refers to a similarity of the leaves of certain plants in the genus Myrsine. The taxonomy of this species is currently under review.[2]

References
  1. Floyd, A. G. (2008). Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia (2nd, Revised ed.). Lismore, New South Wales: Terania Rainforest Publishing. p. 409. ISBN 0-958943-67-2. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
  2. "Planchonella~sp". PlantNET - NSW Flora Online, retrieved 13 December 2010.
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