Common name: Smooth Tuckeroo
Cupaniopsis serrata (F.Muell.) Radlk. APNI* 
Description: Small tree; branches, leaf rachises and peduncles with spreading appressed hairs.
Leaves 16–30 cm long; leaflets 6–12, narrow-ovate to elliptic, 6–13 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, apex long-acuminate with a blunt or ± spinose point, base obtuse to acute, margins coarsely and often sharply toothed, ± rigid, both surfaces glabrous or lower surface finely hairy; strongly veined and reticulate on lower surface; domatia absent; petiole 4–7 cm long, petiolules 1–5 mm long.
Flowers in simple or few-branched raceme-like inflorescences; flowers sessile. Calyx 4–5 mm long. Petals c. 2.5 mm long.
Capsule sessile, subglobose 12–16 cm long, 25–28 mm diam., brown-velvety; valves fairly thin, drying wrinkled; aril orange.
Distribution and occurrence: In subtropical and dry rainforest, Tweed Valley, very rare in N.S.W.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered
Text by G.J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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