Class
Order
Family
Classification
Subordinate Taxa
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Macadamia F.Muell., Trans. & Proc. Philos. Inst. Victoria 2: 72 (1857)
Vernacular Name(s):
Macadamia; Macadamia nut; Queensland nut
Description
Trees or tall shrubs. Lvs verticillate to subopposite, simple, entire or spiny-serrate. Fls in terminal or axillary racemes, small, ☿, pedicellate; bracts small, caducous. Perianth regular or the tube slightly curved; limb clavate, slit laterally by protruding style, finally splitting into 4 recurved segments. Filaments short, inserted c. middle of perianth segments or a little higher; connective produced into a gland or short appendage. Hypogynous glands broad and truncate or forming a ring or cup around ovary. Ovary sessile, usually with reddish hairs; ovules 2; style long and clavate; stigma small and terminal. Fr. nut-like, globular, partially dehiscent with the epicarp splitting longitudinally; endocarp woody, indehiscent. Seed 1–2, large, wingless.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Exotic
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Exotic: Fully Naturalised | 1 |
| Exotic: Casual | 1 |
| Total | 2 |
Bibliography
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Mueller, F.J.H. von 1858: Account of some new Australian plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria 2: 62–77.
Wilcox, M.; Bradshaw, C.; Cameron, E. 2004: Woody plants of the Auckland Domain. Auckland Botanical Society Journal 59(1): 44–56.
