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Whitewood

Atalaya salicifolia

Whitewood
Photo: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Lesser Sunda Is. to N. & E. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Atalaya salicifolia is a species of tree native to dry rainforests of tropical and subtropical Australia, New Guinea and Malesia. The leaves of smaller trees of this species have a distinct winged rachis, in larger trees the rachis becomes increasingly cylindrical.

Other Atalaya plants

Atalaya angustifolia · Atalaya australiana · Atalaya brevialata · Atalaya calcicola · Cape Wing-nut · Atalaya collina · Cattlebush · Broad Leaved Whitewood · Natal wing-nut · Atalaya oligoclada · Atalaya rigida · Atalaya sericopetala

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Atalaya salicifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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