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Rusty Tuckeroo

Cupaniopsis serrata

Also called Smooth Tuckeroo, Steelwood

Rusty Tuckeroo
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
SE. Queensland, NE. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Cupaniopsis serrata, commonly known as smooth tuckeroo, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry family and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a tree with paripinnate leaves with 6 to 12 oblong to egg-shaped leaflets with a pointed tip, and separate male and female flowers arranged in racemes, the fruit a more or less spherical capsule containing a seed with an orange aril.

Where it grows

Smooth tuckeroo grows on rocky hillside and in rainforest from near Gympie in south-eastern Queensland to near the Tweed River in northern New South Wales.

Other Cupaniopsis plants

Tuckeroo · Narrow Leaved Tuckeroo · Cupaniopsis cooperorum · Cupaniopsis dallachyi · Cupaniopsis diploglottoides · Brown tuckeroo · Cupaniopsis fleckeri · White tamarind · Long Leaved Tuckeroo · Cupaniopsis papillosa · Wedge Leaf Tuckeroo · Northern Tuckeroo

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cupaniopsis serrata 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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