TERTIARY ALANGIUM (ALANGIACEAE) IN EASTERN AUSTRALIA - EVIDENCE FROM POLLEN

Alangium has large, distinctive pollen grains which may allow identifi cation to species and species groups. In Australia, there is one speci es, A. villosum (Blume) Wangerin, with two subspecies restricted to ra inforests of the east coast of the continent. The pollen of both subsp ecies is the distinctive A. villosum type of Reitsma (1970). Two Terti ary pollen types of Alangium are formally described as the new form sp ecies Clavastephanocolporites meleosus and C. blysus; these are morpho logically similar to the A. villosum type and the Alangium salviifoliu m type of Reitsma (1970), respectively. These records complement the n umerous Tertiary occurrences in the Indo-Malesian region and elsewhere .