Medicosma Mulgraveana
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''Medicosma mulgraveana'' is a species of small tree in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of far north Queensland. It has mostly trifoliate leaves with elliptical to egg-shaped leaflets and white flowers borne in small groups in leaf axils.


Description

''Medicosma mulgraveana'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are trifoliate on a petiole long, the leaflets elliptical to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in small groups up to long, each flower on a
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about long. The sepals are long and glabrous and the
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s are white, long and covered on the back with soft hairs flattened against the surface. Flowering has been observed in November and the fruit is a glabrous follicle long.


Taxonomy

''Medicosma mulgraveana'' was first formally described in 1985 by Thomas Gordon Hartley in the '' Australian Journal of Botany'' from specimens collected near the East Mulgrave River in 1975.


Distribution and habitat

This medicosma grows in rainforest at an altitude of and is only known from the
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location.


Conservation status

This species is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government '' Nature Conservation Act 1992''.


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18081111 mulgraveana Sapindales of Australia Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1985 Taxa named by Thomas Gordon Hartley