About Bosistoa pentacocca (F.Muell.) Baill.
Bosistoa pentacocca (F.Muell.) Baill. is a tree that typically reaches a height of around 18 meters (59 feet). It has grey, blotchy, scaly bark, and its new growth is pinkish-red. The leaves are pinnate, with an overall length of 140 to 450 millimeters (5.5 to 17.7 inches), growing from a petiole 30 to 80 millimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches) long. Each leaf holds between three and thirteen leaflets, which range in shape from elliptical to lance-shaped. Leaflets measure 45 to 270 millimeters (1.8 to 10.6 inches) long and 15 to 90 millimeters (0.59 to 3.54 inches) wide. Side leaflets are either sessile or attached by a petiolule up to 8 millimeters (0.31 inches) long, while the end leaflet is sessile or attached by a petiolule up to 40 millimeters (1.6 inches) long. Flowers are arranged in panicles 50 to 330 millimeters (2.0 to 13.0 inches) long, growing in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets. The sepals are roughly 1 millimeter (0.039 inches) long and joined for most of their length, and petals measure 3.5 to 4.5 millimeters (0.14 to 0.18 inches) long. Flowering takes place from January to February. The fruit is a follicle 18 to 30 millimeters (0.71 to 1.18 inches) long and 15 to 30 millimeters (0.59 to 1.18 inches) wide, containing a single seed 10 to 20 millimeters (0.39 to 0.79 inches) long. This species grows along streams in rainforest, most commonly dry rainforest. It is found between Bowen in eastern-central Queensland and the Clarence River in north-eastern New South Wales. The subspecies connaricarpa has a more restricted distribution, occurring only between Dryander and Gympie.
