About Cupaniopsis tomentella (F.Muell. ex Benth.) S.T.Reynolds
Cupaniopsis tomentella, commonly known as Boonah tuckeroo, is a tree that typically grows up to 10 metres (33 feet) tall. Its young branchlets are covered in woolly hairs, and all branchlets have lenticels. The leaves are paripinnate, usually bearing six to eight elliptic or oblong leaflets. Each leaflet is 40–90 mm (1.6–3.5 in) long and 20–40 mm (0.79–1.57 in) wide. The entire leaf sits on a petiole 35–70 mm (1.4–2.8 in) long, and the leaf rhachis is 60–130 mm (2.4–5.1 in) long.
Flowers of this species are arranged in panicles 20–90 mm (0.79–3.54 in) long, with each flower borne on a 1 mm (0.039 in) long pedicel. The sepal lobes are hairy and measure 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long, while the petals are white and about 2.5 mm (0.098 in) long. The fruit is a hairy, elliptic, sessile orange-yellow capsule flushed with red, 20–25 mm (0.79–0.98 in) long and 30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in) wide, and each seed has a yellow aril.
This species occurs between Boonah and Ipswich in south-east Queensland, where it usually grows in dry scrubs.
