Atalaya variifolia F.Muell. ex Benth.

Tree to 10 m high. Young parts, branchlets, peduncles and fruit pale yellow tomentose. Leaves paripinnate or imparipinnate, rarely simple; petiole and rachis usually with broad leaf-like wings; rachis 3.5–14 cm long; leaflets 2–7 pairs; lamina usually narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 7–23 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, closely reticulate, glabrous or puberulous, acute at base, attenuate; petiolule to 2 mm long, usually absent; petiole 3.5–10.5 cm long. Panicles terminal, 10–24 cm long; pedicels 5–7 mm long. Sepals 2–3.5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, membranous, densely silky outside. Petals 5, obovate, c. 6 mm long, c. 4 mm wide, pubescent outside; scales without crests. Disc complete. Samaras to 5.5 cm long, tomentose; wings erect, depressed-obovate, crenulate.

A tropical plant. It suits tropical and subtropical locations. It grows in dry tropical regions in Northern Australia. It grows from sea level to 600 m altitude. It needs good drainage.

Plants can be grown from seed.