Mischocarpus exangulatus (F.Muell.) Radlk.

Sapindaceae

Radlkofer, L.A.T. (1879) Actes du Congres International de Botanistes .. Amsterdam for 1877 : 113.

Red Bell Mischocarp; Rex Tokoonja

Sapwood surface corrugated.

Younger leaf bearing twigs longitudinally grooved. Leaflets about 6-8 in the compound leaf, each leaflet blade about 5-18 x 1.5-8 cm. Midrib usually raised on the upper surface of the leaflet blades. Leaflet stalks quite short and swollen at their junction with the compound leaf rhachis. Domatia are foveoles but difficult to see on hairy leaves.

Petals about 3 x 1 mm. Stamens eight. Disk a continuous but wavy glabrous ring of tissue.

Fruits glabrous, about 1.8-2.8 cm long (including the stipe) x 1-1.5 cm. Capsule glabrous inside. Seeds about 15-20 x 7-9 mm, aril usually covering most or all of the seed. Cotyledons green.

First few leaves simple, ovate. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf simple, trifoliolate or pinnate with 2 or 4 leaflets, leaflet blades ovate, apex acuminate-mucronate, glabrous; small or large foveoles sometimes present on the underside; petiole and rhachis of compound leaf clothed in short prostrate hairs. Seed germination time 27 to 103 days.

Endemic to Queensland, occurs in CYP and NEQ. Altitudinal range from sea level to 1100 m. Grows as an understory tree in well developed rain forest on a variety of sites.

Victoria's Riflebird extract the aril covered seed and then usually only swallow the aril. Cooper & Cooper (1994).

Cupania exangulata (F.Muell.) F.Muell., Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9: 91(1875). Ratonia exangulata F.Muell., Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4: 156(1864), Type: In nemoribus ad sinum Rockingham Bay. Dallachy. Lecto: MEL, fide R. W. J. M. van der Ham, Blumea 23: 266 (1977). Arytera subnitida C.T.White, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 47: 56(1936), Type: Daintree River in riverine rain-forest, L.J. Brass, No. 2345; (flowering specimens); March 19, holo: BRI. Ratonia lessertiana (Cambess.) Benth. & Hook.f., Genera Plantarum 1 : 400(1838).