Common name: turpentine
Syncarpia glomulifera (Sm.) Nied. APNI* Description: Tall tree with fibrous to stringy, persistent bark.
Leaves ovate to narrow-ovate, 7–11 cm long, 2.5–4.5 cm wide, upper surface dull green, lower surface usually white-hairy; petiole 0.7–1.3 mm long.
Inflorescences usually pubescent; peduncle 2.5–5 cm long. Sepals short, persistent in fruit. Petals ovate, 5–8 mm long. Stamens apparently in 2 whorls, 8–10 mm long.
Multiple fruit globose to depressed-globose, 10–20 mm diam., hairy or sometimes glabrescent; seeds linear, c. 2 mm long.
Flowering: October–December
Distribution and occurrence: Often grows as an emergent near the margins of rainforest or in wet sclerophyll forest, often on heavier soils; widespread in coastal districts and the lower ranges, north from Murramurang N.P.
NSW subdivisions: CC, SC, CT
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the subspecies | |
| 1 | Leaves and branchlets hairy; fruiting hypanthia remaining hairy. | subsp. glomulifera |
| Leaves and branchlets glabrous; fruiting hypanthia glabrescent. | subsp. glabra |
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