Fruiting bodies and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Hawker, SA

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Hawker, SA

Trees. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, east of Hawker, SA

Common Name

Camel Poison

Family

Gyrostemonaceae

Notes

Shrub or tree to 8m tall. Leaves somewhat fleshy, alternating up the stems, 3-12cm long, 1-3mm wide, linear, hairless, with pointed tips. Male and female flowers on the same plant or on different plants. Flowers with 0 petals, in racemes at the ends of the branchlets or at the bases of the leaves. Apparently now only in SA, but collected early in the twentieth century in the Pooncarie district. Vulnerable Australia. Extinct NSW. Protected NSW. Endangered SA.

Short description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 290

eFlora of South Australia fact sheet: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Codonocarpus_pyramidalis

NSW Department of Environment & Heritage profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=20225