Lepiderema hirsuta

Hairy Lepiderema, Noah's Tamarind

 

An understory rainforest shrub/small tree growing in the dam planting at Wollongbar TAFE Campus, NSW.

 

Here showing the extended rachis tip, typical of the compound leaves in the Sapindaceae family.

 

For a great example of how beautiful this species can be in full flower, check out these images in

Bellingen1's photostream.

 

"Endemic to NEQ, known only from the Noah Creek area north of the Daintree River, the McDowall Range and the Mt Pieter Botte area. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 900 m"

Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants

 

This species can be used as a good, simple keying exercise for students using the on-line key in Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants. A determination can be made using as few as 5 characters. For example.

 

Leaflets number

L58 - more than 20 per leaf

Margin 3-dimensional outline (leaf or leaflet of compound leaves)

L99 – undulate

Flower characters

Inflorescence position

FL3 - cauliflorous

Inflorescence type

FL12 - panicle

Corolla colour

FL75 - pink

 

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