Features (some) shown and describable in words, in these five photographs: • substantial tree with a spreading canopy habit, growing near the coast. • leaves with comparatively long petioles (in proportion to the leaves blades lengths), • petioles along their length near the mid.–point having 1 gland on each side (±2 in total). • leaves with ±obovate shapes, bases' cuneate to ±attenuate, apices ±acute . • branchlets initially at least have appressed pubescent hairs . • inflorescences spikes, with the flowers spaced apart from each other, and the axes have appressed hairs . • flowers with white sepals appearing glabrous on the outsides, appearing sometimes hairy or glabrous on the insides and have acute apices . • flowers insides conspicuously hairy (–presumably villous hairs coming up into the flowers' throats from the disc?). • flowers have 10 stamens . • this deciduous foliage, in this dry season, the outer branches drooping . • fruits round in cross section, longer than their width, ±ovate (unripe) – ±elliptical (ripe) in shape, with terete beaks . • fruits average length ...?, average diameter ...?, seeds inside about 10 mm long . • fruits growing green, ripening through red to purple – black . • fruits appearing in the fifth photograph, ripened to have a glaucous skin–surface bloom . Etcetera .
_Terminalia_ spp. across northern Au have so much interest, many spp. and wonderfully worthwhile challenges to identify .
If these were easy to identify and few in spp. i wouldn't have motivation and interest in identifying and learning these, and would work in other challenging sightings in NatureMapr, including those of my own sightings which i have challenges identifying . I am motivated by the achievable challenges (not by the easiest). All about having sufficient diagnostic evidences (or not even attempting to identify to species).
I take note you're on holidays. I hope you keep enjoying it !
I will see if I can borrow a ruler to get some measurements. I thought these would be relatively easy. I have avoided reporting mangroves on my holiday because they can be quite difficult.
Ripe fruits' (skin and flesh and seed and all at once) approximate diameter and approximate length ?
Clarifying, you wrote the seed length is about 10 mm long ?
Eg. the key requires us to know whether the whole ripe fruit measures less than 1.5 cm diameter or more than 1.5 cm diameter ? I would only be making an assumption to think your seed length about 10 mm means the whole fruits' diameter of less than 1.5 cm?
We per se, cannot identify this sighting to species without this information.
Excellent botanist Russell Barratt who regularly works in The Kimberley region, including the taxonomy of Kimberley _Terminalia_ spp., may know more field spotting features and gestalts' recognitions, of all of the Kimberley _Terminalia_ species, enabling him to identify this species by these five photographs per se. Perhaps you have heard of him?
