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Identification history
| Glossocarya hemiderma | 11 Mar 2026 | JasonPStewart | ||
| Premna limbata | 27 Feb 2026 | JasonPStewart | ||
| Urtica sp. | 27 Feb 2026 | Ange | ||
| Unverified | 2 Jan 2026 | JasonPStewart |
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Lamiaceae botanical family sapling with shrubby form perhaps will become a shrub, a vine, or even a tree – to identify the species .
Check out identification candidates of so far i think the most likely identification candidate: vine sapling _Premna limbata_ .
Or less likely, perhaps identification candidates of : _Premna odorata_, sapling of trees of Vitex spp., vine sapling Clematis pickeringii, etc. .
If you recognise this plant to genus or to species, please let me know in suggesting the species identification and in the comments .
Mossman Gorge, long circuit track's highest section traversing the lower slopes of this ridge area .
2022 August 24th 3:11 pm .
5 comments
JasonPStewart
wrote:
27 Feb 2026
@Ange thank you i appreciate the thoughtful identification suggestion.
This sapling of a larger growing plant species, does not have any stinging hairs hence not in the genus Urtica.
Thank you for reminding me to re-consider species in this wet tropics bio-region in this Urticaceae botanical family, as well as the more likely i still think: Lamiaceae botanical family .
Most plants' spp. in this bio-region in this Urticaceae botanical family do not have these opposite attached leaves which this plant in my sighting and _Urtica incisa_ have, hence less likely identification candidates so far as i know these Urticaceae botanical family spp. in this bio-region (about half of the spp. here, i have so far learned first hand in the field.) .
This sapling of a larger growing plant species, does not have any stinging hairs hence not in the genus Urtica.
Thank you for reminding me to re-consider species in this wet tropics bio-region in this Urticaceae botanical family, as well as the more likely i still think: Lamiaceae botanical family .
Most plants' spp. in this bio-region in this Urticaceae botanical family do not have these opposite attached leaves which this plant in my sighting and _Urtica incisa_ have, hence less likely identification candidates so far as i know these Urticaceae botanical family spp. in this bio-region (about half of the spp. here, i have so far learned first hand in the field.) .
JasonPStewart
wrote:
27 Feb 2026
PS. I think the most likely identification candidate for me still remains: a vine sapling of Premna limbata .
https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/premna_limbata.htm .
https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/premna_limbata.htm .
Ange
wrote:
27 Feb 2026
Thanks Jason! No problem at all, I was scrolling through some of the unverified uploads and thought it looked familiar. :-)
JasonPStewart
wrote:
27 Feb 2026
Ange and all,
FWIW i have just uploaded this other sighting of a more advanced growth (sapling still?) vine in an off track area: Glossocarya hemiderma .
I think these identify as the same species, but i have not yet confirmed that either.
Both these sightings' identifications remain for me a slow motion work in progress !
All the best,
Jason .
FWIW i have just uploaded this other sighting of a more advanced growth (sapling still?) vine in an off track area: Glossocarya hemiderma .
I think these identify as the same species, but i have not yet confirmed that either.
Both these sightings' identifications remain for me a slow motion work in progress !
All the best,
Jason .
JasonPStewart
wrote:
11 Mar 2026
Suggested–only identification of this sapling photographed thanks to botanist Stuart Worboys in the Au Tropical Herbarium.
I have checked all of the sources i have put together in making this species page: Glossocarya hemiderma
Furthermore the Au revision of this genus by Munir (1990) and some more sources not so reliable.
I have more checking to do, so far this checks out as a so well matching identification, yet, still to compare the two other _Glossocarya_ spp. _G. coriacea_ and _G. calcicola_ and some other less likely identitifcation candidates .
I have checked all of the sources i have put together in making this species page: Glossocarya hemiderma
Furthermore the Au revision of this genus by Munir (1990) and some more sources not so reliable.
I have more checking to do, so far this checks out as a so well matching identification, yet, still to compare the two other _Glossocarya_ spp. _G. coriacea_ and _G. calcicola_ and some other less likely identitifcation candidates .
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