Atalaya hemiglauca F.Muell. ex Benth.

Small ± glaucous tree to 6 m high; glabrous or young parts, branchlets, leaves and peduncles puberulent. Leaves paripinnate (simple in some juvenile ones); petiole and rachis with or without narrow wings; rachis 1.2–4.5 cm long; leaflets 1–3 pairs, rarely to 6 pairs; lamina elongate, narrowly elliptic to subobovate or linear and long, usually subfalcate, obtuse or subacute, 6–16 cm long, 0.3–1.5 cm wide, dull bluish green, drying glaucous below, thickly coriaceous; petiolule 1–5 mm long; petiole 0.8–4.5 cm long. Panicles 6–23 cm long; pedicels c. 2.5 mm long. Sepals 2.5–5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, pubescent to glabrous. Petals 5, obovate, c. 8 mm long, c. 3.5 mm wide, usually silky outside, scales without crests. Disc complete. Samaras 2–4 cm long, tomentose to appressed-puberulent; wings erect, crispate.

It is a tropical and subtropical plant. It grows in savannah woodland in dry regions. It is very hardy and drought resistant. It is common on clay soils. Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens.

CAUTION: Reportedly poisonous. Young sucker growth and fruit are poisonous to animals. The fruit are recorded as being eaten raw.

Plants can be grown from fresh seed. They can also be grown from suckers.