Common name: Blunt-leaved Steelwood
Toechima dasyrrhache Radlk. APNI* 
Description: Tree to 15 m high, with branchlets, leaf rachises and peduncles usually rusty-villous.
Leaves 8–20 cm long; leaflets 4–10, narrow-elliptic to elliptic, 2–7 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, apex bluntly acuminate, base often asymmetric and decurrent on petiolule, margins entire, both surfaces glabrous or lower surface finely hairy; small hairy domatia usually present; petiole 2–4 cm long, petiolules 3–6 mm long.
Inflorescences 1–7 cm long. Petals c. 2 mm long.
Capsule broad-ellipsoid, 10–20 mm long and diam., usually 3-angled, reddish orange, valves thick; seeds black, aril yellowish.
Distribution and occurrence: in lowland subtropical rainforest, north from Bellangry (Wilson R.).
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G.J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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