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Diploglottis harpullioides S.T.Reynolds

Babinda tamarind (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Diploglottis

Characteristics

Tree to 8 m high. Branchlets and leaf axes minutely appressed puberulous to glabrous. Leaf rachis 3–27 cm long; leaflets 2–4 pairs, elliptic-oblong, subovate or subobovate, abruptly acuminate, base acute or abruptly attenuate, obtuse, oblique, 8–23 cm long, 3–8 cm wide; petiolules 1–3.5 cm long; petiole 5–14 cm long. Inflorescence to 2.5 cm long; peduncle pubescent; bracts minute. Flowers 5 mm diam.; pedicels 5–7 mm long. Calyx lobes suborbicular, 4–5 mm long and wide, silky outside. Petals 4 or 5, as long as calyx, membranous. Disc regular. Fruit transversely ellipsoidal, usually with 2 globose lobes, 3–4.5 cm long, 3.5–6.5 cm wide, 2-valved; valves thick, fleshy, pubescent outside, silky inside. Aril red.
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A tall shrub or small tree. It grows 3-8 m tall and spreads 1-3 m wide. Young shoots have lines along them. The leaves are 20-58 cm long. The leaves are compound with 4-8 leaflets. These are 8-30 cm long by 3.5-8 cm wide. The flower panicles are 1-2.5 cm long. They are in the axils of leaves. Flowers are about 0.5 cm across and hairy. The fruit is 3-6 cm long by 3.5-6.5 cm wide. They occur singly or in bunches either in the axils of leaves or on the trunk. The fruit have 1-3 lobes. The seed are enclosed in a fleshy red aril.
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Mature height (meter) 5.5 - 8.0
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A tropical plant. It grows naturally in rainforest in NE Queensland, Australia. It grows from sea level to 400 m altitude. It requires well drained moist soils. It needs some shade. Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens.
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Grows in lowland rainforest.
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Plants are grown from fresh seed.
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Images

Diploglottis harpullioides unspecified picture

Distribution

Diploglottis harpullioides world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:897605-1
WFO ID wfo-0000650213
COL ID 36LL2
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Synonyms

Diploglottis harpullioides
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