Diploglottis

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Diploglottis

Diploglottis cunninghamii

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Sapindaceae
Genus:	Diploglottis F. Muell

Species

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Diploglottis is a genus of 10 species of tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae. Eight of the species are found in eastern Australia, primarily as a rainforest tree and the other two are in eastern Malesia and New Caledonia.

They are distinguished by their deep, green leaflets which are arranged oppositely, and the leaflets form paripinnite leaves.

One Australian species, D. cunninghamii is grown as a street tree in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, principally Lismore and is known locally as the native tamarind. It has no direct relationship with the true tamarind.

Yet another endemic Australian species is Diploglottis campbellii, also known as the small leaved tamarind, is rare and threatened and is restriced to a small number of sites each with a maximum of 3 trees per site. However, the tree, as a seedling, is readily available from nurseries in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, and in south-eastern Queensland

There are a total of 42 known mature wild trees in south east Queensland and north eastern New South Wales. the small leaved tamarind grows to 30 metres and has a compacted canopy making it good to use as a screening tree. It has small three lobed fruit capsules. Fruit is red when ripe and can be made into a jam.