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Cupaniopsis shirleyana
Cupaniopsis shirleyana, commonly known as wedge-leaved tuckeroo, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry family and is endemic to Queensland. It is a small tree with paripinnate leaves, usually with 6 to 14 wedge-shaped leaflets with serrated edges, and separate male and female flowers arranged in spikes, the fruit a more or less spherical orange capsule containing a seed with an orange-red aril.
Wedge-leaved tuckeroo grows in dry rainforest in scrubby slopes, scree slopes and rocky streams at altitudes between 60 and 550 m (200 and 1,800 ft) above sea level from near Brisbane to Curtis Island in south-eastern Queensland.
Tuckeroo · Narrow Leaved Tuckeroo · Cupaniopsis cooperorum · Cupaniopsis dallachyi · Cupaniopsis diploglottoides · Brown tuckeroo · Cupaniopsis fleckeri · White tamarind · Long Leaved Tuckeroo · Cupaniopsis papillosa · Rusty Tuckeroo · Northern Tuckeroo
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cupaniopsis shirleyana 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.
