BRACHYCHITON COMPACTUS

This member of the Sterculiaceae* family was given this name by Gordon Paul Guymer in 1989. It is found around, Proserpine, Queensland in North-Eastern Australia. It is growing in a well drained soil like granite gravel with quite some water and lots of sun. The trunk can grow from 80 to 140 centimetres in diameter, the entire tree from eight to fifteen metres in height. The flowers are white with vine-red marking.

The genera name from Greek, brachys, short and chiton, a tunic, a reference to the coating on the seed.

The species name means 'compact, close together' just because of it is smaller. The trunk of an older tree, by Geoffrey Sinclair, Inaturalist.ala.org.au. Juvenile leaves by CC-BY: S.& A. Pearson, Lucidcentral.org. The fruits.