Common name: White Booyong, Crowsfoot Elm
Argyrodendron trifoliolatum F.Muell. APNI* Synonyms: Heritiera trifoliolata (F.Muell.) Kosterm. APNI* Tarrietia argyrodendron Benth. APNI* Tarrietia trifoliolata (F.Muell.) F.Muell. APNI* Tarrietia carronii C.Moore APNI* Tarrietia argyrodendron var. trifoliolata (F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey APNI*
Description: Large tree to 40 m with canopy often appearing whitish from below; strongly buttressed at base, bark brown or grey, fissured.
Leaflets 3, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 8–14 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, lower surface silvery-scaly; petiole 0.5–8 cm long, petiolules 2–10 mm long.
Panicles many-flowered, often shorter than the leaves.
Seed-bearing portion of the samara subglobose, 6–10 mm diam.; wing 3–6 cm long, 10–20 mm wide.
Distribution and occurrence: Common, north from the Hastings River. Growing in lowland rainforest on rich soils to 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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