Cupaniopsis wadsworthii

Cupaniopsis wadsworthii, sometimes commonly named duckfoot,[2] or dwarf tuckeroo,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry family and is endemic to Queensland.

It is a slender shrub or small tree with paripinnate leaves with two to eight broadly wedge-shaped or broadly lobed leaflets, and separate male and female flowers arranged in raceme-like thyrses, the fruit a capsule with a seed with an orange aril.

The leaflets form a distinctive triangular shape, broad at the tip and terminating in a point at the petiole.

[2][4][5] This species was first formally described in 1863 by Ferdinand von Mueller, who gave it the name Harpullia wadsworthii in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected near Rockhampton.

[8] Cupaniopsis wadsworthii usually grows on hills in rocky soil in rainforests and seasonally dry rainforests at altitudes up to 740 m (2,430 ft), from Townsville to Maryborough, including on Magnetic Island, in central eastern Queensland.

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