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Brachychiton albidus
Guymer


A species endemic to southern Cape York Peninsula. The flowers are beautiful on the bare dry season branches.

Brachychiton albidus Brachychiton albidus
 
  Description:Female flowers Description:Male flowers
  Location: Bob's Lookout, Mulligan Highway, North Queensland Location: Bob's Lookout, Mulligan Highway, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:16˚28.082S, 144˚53.114E GPS coordinates:16˚28.082S, 144˚53.114E
  Date of photo:19 July 2015 Date of photo:19 July 2015
  Field No.:3230 Field No.:3230
     
  Brachychiton albidus Brachychiton albidus
 
  Description:Female flowers with green ants Description:Flowers with white throated honeyeater
  Location: Bob's Lookout, Mulligan Highway, North Queensland Location: Bob's Lookout, Mulligan Highway, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:16˚28.082S, 144˚53.114E GPS coordinates:16˚28.082S, 144˚53.114E
  Date of photo:19 July 2015 Date of photo:19 July 2015
  Field No.:3230 Field No.:3230
     
  Brachychiton albidus Brachychiton albidus
 
  Description:Open pods Description:Green pods
  Location: Bob's Lookout, Mulligan Highway, North Queensland Location: Bob's Lookout, Mulligan Highway, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:16˚28.082S, 144˚53.114E GPS coordinates:16˚28.082S, 144˚53.114E
  Date of photo:19 July 2015 Date of photo:19 July 2015
  Field No.:3230 Field No.:3230
     
  Brachychiton albidus Brachychiton albidus
     
  Description:Leaves Description:Tree
  Location: Bob's Lookout, Mulligan Highway, North Queensland Location: Bob's Lookout, Mulligan Highway, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:16˚28.082S, 144˚53.114E GPS coordinates:16˚28.082S, 144˚53.114E
  Date of photo:1 January 2015 Date of photo:1 January 2015
  Field No.:2964 Field No.:2964
     
  Brachychiton albidus Brachychiton albidus
 
  Description:Trunk Description:Flowering tree in dry season
  Location: Bob's Lookout, Mulligan Highway, North Queensland Location: Bob's Lookout, Mulligan Highway, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:16˚28.082S, 144˚53.114E GPS coordinates:16˚28.082S, 144˚53.114E
  Date of photo:19 July 2015 Date of photo:19 July 2015
  Field No.:3230 Field No.:3230
     
  Brachychiton albidus Brachychiton albidus
 
  Description:Flower Description:Seedpods
  Location: Old Coach Road, Maytown, North Queensland Location: Old Coach Road, Maytown, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:15˚59.8596S, 144˚17.4072E GPS coordinates:15˚59.8596S, 144˚17.4072E
  Date of photo:29 July 2017 Date of photo:29 July 2017
  Field No.:6205 Field No.:6205
     
  Brachychiton albidus Brachychiton albidus
 
  Description:Buds on trunk Description:Tree on steep hillside
  Location: Old Coach Road, Maytown, North Queensland Location: Old Coach Road, Maytown, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:15˚59.8596S, 144˚17.4072E GPS coordinates:15˚59.8596S, 144˚17.4072E
  Date of photo:29 July 2017 Date of photo:29 July 2017
  Field No.:6205 Field No.:6205
     
     
     

References (accessed 5 August 2017):

Guymer, G.P., (1989) A Taxonomic Revision of Brachychiton (Sterculiaceae), Australian  Systematic Botany 1(3), 199-323

Beasley J (2009), Plants of Cape York, John Beasley

http://keys.trin.org.au/key-server/data/0e0f0504-0103-430d-8004-060d07080d04/media/Html/taxon/Brachychiton_albidus.htm

Brachychiton albidus, Wetland Info, Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, Queensland 

 

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