About Cupaniopsis newmanii S.T.Reynolds
Cupaniopsis newmanii, commonly called long-leaved tuckeroo, is generally a shrub or small tree. It usually grows up to 6 metres (20 feet) tall, with a trunk diameter at breast height of up to 5 centimetres (2.0 inches). The trunk is crooked and not buttressed, with dark grey or black bark that has vertical lines and cracks. Small branches are relatively thick, and new shoots and branchlets are covered in rusty brown hairs. Leaves are paripinnate, with 16 to 24 leaflets. Leaflets are narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic, measuring 60 to 180 millimetres (2.4 to 7.1 inches) long and 25 to 60 millimetres (0.98 to 2.36 inches) wide. The leaf rachis is 140 to 370 millimetres (5.5 to 14.6 inches) long. Leaves are leathery, glabrous, and have irregularly toothed edges. Flowers grow in panicles located in leaf axils; these panicles are 100 to 210 millimetres (3.9 to 8.3 inches) long and form on a hairy peduncle. Each individual flower sits on a pedicel 1 to 3 millimetres (0.039 to 0.118 inches) long. Sepal lobes are 5 to 7 millimetres (0.20 to 0.28 inches) long, and covered in silky hairs on their outer surface. Petals are egg-shaped, 2.5 millimetres (0.098 inches) long, and pinkish-mauve in colour. Flowering takes place from July to October. The fruit is a rust-coloured capsule 18 to 24 millimetres (0.71 to 0.94 inches) long and 16 to 27 millimetres (0.63 to 1.06 inches) wide, flushed with pink and containing a cup-shaped yellow aril. This species grows on the margins of rainforest between Mullumbimby in New South Wales and Gympie in south-eastern Queensland.
