Common name: Milky Mangrove, River Poison Tree, Blind-your-eye
Excoecaria agallocha L. APNI*
Description: Shrub or small tree to 9 m high, dioecious. Bark grey and rough.
Leaves obovate to broad-elliptic, usually 4–12 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, glabrous, thick, margins mostly entire or sometimes ± toothed, apex rounded or shortly pointed, secondary veins visible but not prominent; petiole 12–20 mm long, 2 glands near apex.
Spikes or racemes 2–6 cm long. Flowers yellow-brown.
Capsule c. 7 mm diam., often dehiscing explosively; ripe Dec. and Jan.
Distribution and occurrence: Chiefly adjacent to or in mangrove communities and swamp rainforest of palms and Elaeocarpus obovatus; north from Port Macquarie.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. N.T.
Text by T. A. James & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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