Barry Conn (NSW) & Kipiro Damas (LAE).
Copyright held by the authors, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, and Papua New Guinea National Herbarium

Acronychia pullei Lauterb.

Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie Vol. 55: 251 (1918)

Leaves: Spaced along branches <internodes readily visible>. Leaves spiral, compound; petiole present, not winged, attached to base of leaf blade <not peltate>, swollen <at tip, or base, or both> leaves with three leaflets; petiolule not swollen; each leaflet broadest at or near middle, 2.5-5.0 cm long, 1.0-1.8 cm wide, leaflets arranged from one point, asymmetric, terminal developing leaflet buds straight; venation pinnate <secondary veins arising from the midrib along its length>, secondary veins open <spaced far apart to easily see tertiary veins>, not prominent, but visible, intramarginal veins absent; hairs absent, domatia absent; stipules absent.

Flowers: Inflorescence axillary <from between a leaf and branch>. Flowers on a branched axis; flowers stalked, 5.0-8.0 mm long, small (< or =10 mm diam.) 3-6 mm diam.; perianth present, with distinct sepals and petals, white; inner perianth 4, free; stamens 8, filaments present, joined <connate>, free of perianth; ovary superior <seated above petals and sepals; hypogenous>.

Distribution: Morobe.

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