Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Diploglottis australis
Common name
Native tamarind
Family
Sapindaceae
Where found
Forest, sometimes in regrowth. Coastal north from Bermagui. Occasiinally in the ranges.
Notes
Tree to about 35 m high. Arils on the seeds fleshy. Larger trees fluted towards the base. Bark smooth, dark grey or brownish grey, often becoming blistered on large trees. Branchlets strongly ribbed, rusty-hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, adult leaves 40–135 cm long, compound, with 6–20 leaflets. Leaves on saplings and regrowth simple or with 3–5 leaflets. Leaflets mostly 10–30 cm long and 40–100 mm wide, upper surface more or less hairless except along the veins, lower surface rusty-hairy to sparsely hairy except along the veins, tips rounded or bluntly pointed. Flowers functionally unisexual with male and female flowers on the same plant. Flowers with 4-5 white petals, about 3 mm in diameter, and creamy- to golden-brown hairy sepals. Flowers in much branched clusters mostly 12–50 cm long. Seed cases yellow to brown, hairy, 10–15 mm in diameter, 2- or 3-lobed. Arils completely covering the seeds, orange to yellow. Fruit ripe Nov-Dec.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Diploglottis~australis (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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