Common name: Black Booyong, Black Jack
Argyrodendron actinophyllum (F.M.Bailey) Edlin APNI* Synonyms: Heritiera actinophylla (F.M.Bailey) Kosterm. APNI*
Tarrietia actinophylla F.M.Bailey APNI*
Description: Large tree to 50 m with a dark green crown; prominently buttressed, bark grey to very dark grey.
Leaflets 5–9, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 10–18 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, lower surface green and glabrous, domatia usually present; petiole mostly 3–15 cm long, petiolules 5–25 mm long.
Panicles many-flowered, longer than the leaves.
Seed-bearing portion of samara ovoid, smooth, 5–7 mm diam.; wing 4–6 cm long, 15–25 mm wide.
Distribution and occurrence: north from Gloucester. In warmer rainforest on richer soils, mostly above 600 m alt.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden (modified B.J. Conn 2014)
Taxon concept: based on Peter Wilkie et al. (2006), Systematic Botany Vol. 31 (1): pp. 160-170.
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