Cupaniopsis foveolata
Cupaniopsis foveolata, commonly known as narrow-leaved tuckeroo, white tamarind or toothed tuckeroo, is a plant in the maple and lychee family Sapindaceae found in eastern Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It is a medium sized tree, first described in 1875. It has the conservation status of least concern.
Description
Cupaniopsis foveolata is a tree growing to about high and diameter. New growth is covered in fine hairs and twigs have numerous lenticels. The compound leaves can grow to about long, with 4–8 or 10 leaflets arranged alternately. The leaflets are narrowly elliptic to ovate, obtuse at the base and bluntly accuminate at the tip. They measure up to about long and wide with scalloped margins.The inflorescences are panicles produced either terminally, from the leaf axils or directly from the old wood of the branches. They are held erect and measure about wide and long. They carry numerous cream-coloured flowers of about diameter held on pedicels up to long. The is five-lobed, there are five sessile, hairy petals about long, and there are eight stamens. The ovary is 3-locular with one ovule per locule, the stigma is persitant.
The fruit is a yellow/orange 3-segmented capsule up to wide, broadest at the apex. It is outside and finely hairy on the inner surfaces. Each segment contains a single black seed that is mostly enclosed within a yellow aril.