Common name: long-leaved tuckeroo
Cupaniopsis newmanii S.T.Reynolds APNI* 
Description: Shrub or small tree, usually unbranched; branchlets brown-velvety, leaf rachises finely hairy or glabrous.
Leaves 35–45 cm long; leaflets 16–24, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, 6–13 cm long, 2.5–5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base strongly asymmetric, margins irregularly toothed, leathery, both surfaces glabrous or lower surface finely hairy; domatia absent; petiole 8–15 cm long, petiolules 8–30 mm long.
Panicles 10–20 cm long; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Calyx 5–7 mm long. Petals c. 2.5 mm long, pinkish.
Capsule ± sessile, obovoid, 18–24 mm long, 16–27 mm wide, valves thin, velvety, pinkish with rusty hairs, drying deeply wrinkled; aril cupular, yellow.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on the margins and in warmer rainforest, north from Mullumbimby.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G.J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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