Cordyline rubra —Red Palm-Lily—ASPARAGACEAE.
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Habitat—In warmer rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest. Distribution—Coastal lowlands and ranges; north from Lismore, New South Wales to about Bundaberg, Queensland. Description—Shrub to 4 m high, sometimes branched. Local occurrences— Boorganna Nature Reserve,
Forster Cemetery,
Great Lakes College-Forster Campus,
Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and
Talawahl Nature Reserve.
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Leaves.— 15 to 50 cm long, 3 to 5.5 cm wide; lamina ± narrow—elliptic, gradually narrowed into a ± flat or slightly incurved petiole 5 to 20 cm long. |
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Inflorescence—Panicles 20 to 40 cm long; scape 10 to 30 cm long; pedicels 0.5 to 2 mm long. Perianth glabrous, bluish; tepals unequal, outer tepals 6 to 9 mm long, inner ones 7 to 10 mm long. Flowering.—November to December. |
Fruit—c.10 mm diam., red. Ripe.—January to February. |
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