Common name: Lace Tree, Scrub Bottle Tree, Lacebark Tree
Brachychiton discolor F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Deciduous tree to 30 m high.
Leaves 3–7-lobed, lamina 8–18 cm long, cordate at base, adult leaves usually shallowly 5-lobed, juvenile leaves deeply 5–7-lobed, lobes acuminate, lower surface densely velvety-white; petiole 8–18 cm long, glabrous.
Flowers 4–6 cm long, red to pink, pubescent outside with fine stellate hairs and sparse soft bristles to 2 mm long.
Follicle 10–15 cm long and 3–5 cm wide, stalk usually 10–20 mm long.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: In moist and dry rainforest north from Dungog.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: G.P. Guymer (1988)
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