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Diploglottis australis, known as the native tamarind, is a well known rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It is easily identified by the large sausage shaped leaflets. It is easily identified by the large sausage shaped leaflets.
Diploglottis is a genus of 11 species (as of 2014) in the lychee and maple family Sapindaceae. Most species only occur in the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, but all species except one are endemic to eastern Australia, with the exception being D. diphyllostegia , which also occurs in New Guinea.
Diploglottis cunninghamii Auguste Faguet Dictionnaire de botanique 1886. Muscat Hamburgh Handbuch der Tafeltraubenkultur 1895. 1–100 CE. c. 77 De Materia Medica [1] ...
Diploglottis diphyllostegia is a tree growing up to 30 m (98 ft) high. The trunk is up to 30 cm (12 in) diameter, often fluted or irregularly shaped in cross section and may be buttressed . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The large compound leaves measure around 40–50 cm (16–20 in) long with up to 9 leaflets either side of the rachis .
Diploglottis cunninghamii, Baillon's Dictionnaire de botanique. Henri Ernest Baillon (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi ɛʁnɛst bajɔ̃]; 30 November 1827 in Calais – 19 July 1895 in Paris) was a French botanist and physician. Baillon spent his academic life teaching natural history and publishing numerous works on botany.
Diploglottis australis Syn.: Diploglottis cunninghamii) (Australian, New Holland ironwood) Distylium racemosum (Japanese ironwood) Drypetes gerrardii (Bastard white ironwood, Forest ironwood) Erythrophleum chlorostachys Steelwood (Cooktown ironwood, Red or Northern ironwood, Leguminous ironwood, Poisonous ironwood), native to northern Australia [7]
This is a list of Australian plants which have had a common name prefixed with the adjective "native".. Early European settlers in Australia were confronted with a large variety of unaccustomed animals and plants, and in many cases gave them familiar names qualified with the adjective "native", based on some fancied resemblance, so what is now a koala was called a "native bear" and the dingo a ...
The general shape of the tree is conical with tiered, [5] horizontal branches that are often somewhat pendulous toward the tips. Cunninghamia bears softly spined, leathery, stiff, green to blue-green needle-like leaves that spiral around the stem with an upward arch; they are 2–7cm long and 3–5mm broad at the base, and bear two white or greenish white stomatal bands underneath and ...