About Lepiderema pulchella Radlk.
Lepiderema pulchella, also known as fine-leaved tuckeroo, is a mostly glabrous tree that typically grows to a height of 15 meters (49 feet). Its leaves are pinnate, 70 to 150 millimeters (2.8 to 5.9 inches) long, borne on a 15 to 25 millimeter (0.59 to 0.98 inch) long petiole, with four to fourteen leaflets per leaf. The leaflets are narrow elliptic to lance-shaped, roughly curved, 25 to 80 millimeters (0.98 to 3.15 inches) long, 10 to 25 millimeters (0.39 to 0.98 inches) wide, and have wavy edges. Flowers are arranged in panicles 55 to 120 millimeters (2.2 to 4.7 inches) long that grow in leaf axils; each individual flower sits on a 2 to 3.5 millimeter (0.079 to 0.138 inch) long pedicel. The flowers themselves are yellow-orange, 2 to 3 millimeters (0.079 to 0.118 inches) long, with sepals 1.5 to 3.5 millimeters (0.059 to 0.138 inches) long. The fruit is a brown, spherical to three-lobed capsule 8 to 10 millimeters (0.31 to 0.39 inches) in diameter, containing dark brown seeds around 5 millimeters (0.20 inches) long, and the fruit matures in December. Fine-leaved tuckeroo grows on creek and river banks and at the edge of rainforest, ranging from far south-eastern Queensland to the Tweed River in New South Wales.
