Lepiderema pulchella, commonly known as fine-leaved tuckeroo,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to coastal eastern Australia. It is a tree with pinnate, glossy light green leaves with four to fourteen leaflets, panicles of yellow-orange flowers and brown, spherical to three-lobed fruit.
Lepiderema pulchella is a tree that typically grows to a height of and is mostly glabrous. The leaves are pinnate, long on a petiole long with four to fourteen leaflets, the leaflets narrow elliptic to lance-shaped, more or less curved, long, wide and with wavy edges. The flowers are arranged in panicles long in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are yellow-orange and long, the sepals long. The fruit is a brown, spherical to three-lobed capsule in diameter containing dark brown seeds about long, the fruit maturing in December.[2] [3]
Lepiderema pulchella was first formally described in 1907 by Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer in Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien Nachtr.[4] [5]
Fine-leaved tuckeroo grows on creek and river banks and at the edge of rainforest from far south-eastern Queensland to the Tweed River in New South Wales.
This tuckeroo is classified as "vulnerable" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[6]
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