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Tabernaemontana orientalis R.Br.
Eastern Gondola Bush
A small tree from the
coast in North Queensland.This species was collected by Banks and Solander at Cooktown in 1770.


  Tabernaemontana orientalis   Tabernaemontana orientalis
   
  Description:Flowers   Description:Flowers and leaves
Location: Hartley's Creek, North Queensland   Location: Hartley's Creek, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates: 16˚39.146S 145˚34.063E   GPS coordinates: 16˚39.146S 145˚34.063E
Date of photo:26 October 2008   Date of photo:20 April  2008
  Field No.:U778   Field No.:U778
       
Tabernaemontana orientalis   Tabernaemontana orientalis
   
  Description:Fruit and leaves   Description:Fruit
  Location: Hartley's Creek, North Queensland   Location: Hartley's Creek, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates: 16˚39.146S 145˚34.063E   GPS coordinates: 16˚39.146S 145˚34.063E
  Date of photo:20 April  2008   Date of photo:20 April  2008
  Field No.:U778   Field No.:U778
  Tabernaemontana orientalis   Tabernaemontana orientalis
   
  Description:Tree in coastal habitat   Description:Flowers - side view
  Location: Hartley's Creek, North Queensland   Location: Hartley's Creek, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates: 16˚39.146S 145˚34.063E   GPS coordinates: 16˚39.146S 145˚34.063E
  Date of photo:26 October 2008   Date of photo:26 October 2008
  Field No.:U778   Field No.:U778
       
  Tabernaemontana orientalis Tabernaemontana orientalis
   
  Description:Flowers   Description:Leaf showing veins
  Location: Geoffrey Bay, Magnetic Island, North Queensland   Location: Geoffrey Bay, Magnetic Island, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:19˚09.0036S, 146°52.0566E   GPS coordinates:19˚09.0036S, 146°52.0566E
  Date of photo:24 December 2016   Date of photo:24 December 2016
  Field No.:5801   Field No.:5801
       
       

 

References (accessed 29 December  2016):

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Apocynaceae. 
Flora of Australia 28:115-116

http://keys.trin.org.au/key-server/data/0e0f0504-0103-430d-8004-060d07080d04/media/Html/taxon/Tabernaemontana_orientalis.htm

http://sgaptownsville.org.au/Tabernaemontana-orientalis.html



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Tabernaemontana orientalis