Cupaniopsis tomentella (f.Muell. ex Benth.) S.t.reynolds

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Cupaniopsis

Characteristics

Tree to 10 m high. Young parts, branchlets, leaf axes and peduncles ±crispate, tomentose; branchlets lenticellate. Leaf rachis 6–13 cm long; leaflets usually 6–8; lamina elliptic, oblong or subobovate, obtuse to retuse, entire to remotely serrulate especially towards apex, obtuse and oblique at base, 4–9 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, glabrous or puberulent above, pubescent or puberulent below, densely reticulate; petiolules 7–10 mm long; petiole 3.5–7 cm long. Panicles 2–9 cm long; pedicels 1 mm long. Calyx lobes 5–6 mm long, pubescent. Petals obovate, 2.5 mm long, white; scales as long. Fruit sessile, depressed ellipsoidal drying obtriangular, 2–2.5 cm long, 3–4 cm diam., pubescent, orange-yellow with red flush; valves thick, rugose, drying deeply wrinkled outside. Seed ±covered by thin, yellow aril.
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Usually grows in dry scrub.
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Distribution

Cupaniopsis tomentella world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:913882-1
WFO ID wfo-0000629773
COL ID 6BS44
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Synonyms

Cupania tomentella Cupaniopsis serrata var. tomentella Cupaniopsis tomentella