Assignment/exercise
UniSC Plant Profile - Thymelaeaceae, Wikstroemia indica
University of the Sunshine Coast
2024
Appears in UniSC Plant Profiles
Abstract
Wikstroemia Swedish botanist John Wickstrom, d. 1856 and indica, L. indicus from India (Haslam, 2004), a twiggy shrub to 1.5 m habiting stony clay on rainforest margins (Leiper et al. 2022). Bearing poisonous berry-like drupes to 8mm (Haslam, 2004), these orange-to-red fruit have been reported to kill children after digestion (CSIRO, 2020). Leaves of W. indica are ovate to elliptic, measuring 2 to 6 cm in length and mostly 10 to 20 mm wide. They are smooth and hairless (glabrous), with a dark green, glossy upper surface and a glaucous lower surface (PlantNET, 1990). Natural history states that the leaves are poisonous to cattle with leaf and stem material being active against some tumours being medicinally used in India, Fiji and China (CSIRO, 2020). The tubular green flowers (as shown above) are produced from Spring to Autumn.
Details
- Title
- UniSC Plant Profile - Thymelaeaceae, Wikstroemia indica
- Authors
- Kara Reading - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Location
- Latitude: -26.718 Longitude: 153.063; Garden bed between I block and carpark, UniSC Sunshine Coast.
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date collected
- 19-Mar-2024
- Date published
- 2024
- Copyright note
- (c) The Author. Reproduced with permission.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991093996402621
- Output Type
- Assignment/exercise; Plant Profile Sheet
- Teaching and Learning
- ENS221; Plant Diversity and Ecology
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