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Atalaya is a genus of about eighteen tree and shrub species in the soapberry and maple family, Sapindaceae. Most are native to Australia and New Guinea, with a few in southern Africa; they are not commonly grown as houseplants, so care advice here is for the genus generally.
Atalaya is a genus of eighteen species of trees and shrubs of the plant family Sapindaceae. As of 2013 fourteen species grow naturally in Australia and in neighbouring New Guinea only one endemic species is known to science. Three species are known growing naturally in southern Africa, including two species endemic to South Africa and one species in South Africa, Eswatini and Mozambique.
One species, A. salicifolia, which grows in Australia, has a wider distribution through nearby Timor and westwards through some more of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia). This species has the widest distribution of all and is the type species—the first to have a formal scientific name, description and represent the genus.
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