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Northern Tuckeroo

Cupaniopsis simulata

Northern Tuckeroo
Photo: Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Cupaniopsis simulata, commonly known as northern tuckeroo, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry family and is endemic to eastern Queensland. It is a rainforest tree with paripinnate leaves with 4 to 12 elliptic leaflets, and separate male and female flowers arranged in a thyrse, the fruit a brownish orange capsule.

Where it grows

Northern tuckeroo grows in araucarian rainforest at altitudes from 120 to 540 m (390 to 1,770 ft) between central eastern and south-eastern Queensland.

Other Cupaniopsis plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cupaniopsis simulata 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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