Harpullia alata

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Harpullia alata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Sapindaceae
Genus: Harpullia
Species:
H. alata
Binomial name
Harpullia alata
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Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms [1]
  • Harpulia alataF.Muell. orth. var.
  • Harpullia frutescensauct. non F.M.Bailey: White, C.T. (1911)

Harpullia alata, commonly known as winged tulip or wing-leaved tulip, [2] is a flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a tree with paripinnate leaves, the leaflets elliptic with teeth on the edges, white flowers and capsules containing a seed with a yellow to reddish aril.

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Description

Harpullia alata is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to 4 m (13 ft), its new growth covered with rusty hairs. Its leaves are paripinnate, 100–350 mm (3.9–13.8 in) long with 6 to 10 elliptic to lance shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, mostly 50–150 mm (2.0–5.9 in) long and 20–50 mm (0.79–1.97 in) wide on a winged petiole 30–80 mm (1.2–3.1 in) long. The flowers are borne in racemes in leaf axils and are 50–140 mm (2.0–5.5 in) long. The sepals are 7 mm (0.28 in) long and covered with downy hairs, the petals are white and 12 mm (0.47 in) long, there are 8 stamens, and the ovary covered with soft hairs. The fruit is a sessile, broadly oval, yellowish capsule 18–24 mm (0.71–0.94 in) long containing two shiny chestnut brown seeds, nearly enclosed in a yellow to reddish aril. [2] [3] [4]

This is the only Australian Harpullia species that has dentate margins on the leaflets and wings on the leaf stem. [2]

Taxonomy and naming

Harpullia alata was first formally described in 1860 by Victorian government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller from a specimen collected by Dr Hermann Beckler "in woods" near the Clarence River in New South Wales. [5] [6] The species epithet, alata, is a Latin adjective meaning "winged", and refers to the winged petiole. [2] The type specimen is held at Kew (K) k000701234.

Distribution and habitat

Winged tulip grows in rainforest at high altitudes in gullies and steep slopes from the McPherson Ranges in southern Qeensland where it is quite common, to the Clarence River in northern New South Wales. [2] [4]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Reynolds, Sally T. (2020). "Harpullia alata". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  3. Harden, Gwen J. "Harpullia alata". Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  4. 1 2 Reynolds, Sally T. (1981). "Notes on Sapindaceae in Australia, I." Austrobaileya. 1 (4): 414. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  5. "Harpullia alata". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  6. Mueller, F.J.H. von (1860). "Sapindaceae Harpullia alata". Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. 2 (14): 103–104.