Common name: Mango Bark, Carrot Wood, Brown Cudgerie, Parsnip Wood
Canarium australasicum (F.M.Bailey) Leenh. APNI* Description: Medium-sized tree, sometimes buttressed.
Leaves imparipinnate, 10–30 cm long; leaflets usually 3–7 or rarely reduced to 1, lanceolate to oblong or obovate, 5–13 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margins entire, glabrous and glossy; petiole 3–9 cm long; petiolules 4–20 mm long, with prominent pulvini.
Panicles 6–12 cm long. Petals c. 4 mm long in male flowers.
Drupe ± globose, c. 10 mm long, bluish.
Distribution and occurrence: in subtropical and richer warm-temperate rainforest north from near Lismore; not common.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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