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Argophyllum heterodontum is a straggly shrub, 2 to 6 m tall, found only in a very small area of the Wet Tropics of north eastern Queensland. It is a wild rainforest-margin species rarely grown, so care is mostly inferred from its natural habitat.
Argophyllum heterodontum is a plant in the Argophyllaceae family endemic to a small part of north eastern Queensland. It has an affinity to A. lejourdanii and was described and named in 2018.
A. heterodontum is restricted to a very small area of the Wet Tropics of Queensland, mostly in the area of Walsh's Pyramid, and with a disjunct population around Butchers Creek Falls to the south-west. It inhabits gallery forest and rock outcrops on the margins of rainforest. The Walsh's Pyramid population is on very thin soil derived from granite, while at Butchers Creek they grow on basaltic and metamorphic soils. The total area of occupancy of this species is just 36 km2 (14 sq mi).
Argophyllum cryptophlebum · Argophyllum curtum · Argophyllum ferrugineum · Argophyllum iridescens · Argophyllum jagonis · Argophyllum laxum · Argophyllum lejourdanii · Argophyllum loxotrichum · Silver Leaf · Argophyllum palumense · Argophyllum verae · Argophyllum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Argophyllum heterodontum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
