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Buttonwood

Glochidion harveyanum

Buttonwood
Photo: Poyt448, Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Phyllanthaceae (Phyllanth family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Glochidion harveyanum known as the buttonwood or Harvey's buttonwood is a shrub or small tree in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is found in tropical north eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea in drier rainforest areas, from coastal areas to 1,000 metres above sea level.

Other Glochidion plants

Glochidion carrickii · Phyllanthus hohenackeri · Glochidion hylandii · Phyllanthus raiateaensis · Glochidion stylosum · Glochidion symingtonii · Phyllanthus temehaniensis · Glochidion zeylanicum var. tomentosum · Glochidion · Phyllanthus apodogynus · Phyllanthus bourdillonii · Phyllanthus candolleanus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Glochidion harveyanum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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