Cupaniopsis

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Kingdom Plantae Family Sapindaceae Scientific name Cupaniopsis Rank Genus		Order Sapindales Subfamily Sapindoideae Higher classification Sapindaceae

Similar Cupaniopsis anacardioides, Sapindaceae, Arytera, Diploglottis, Harpullia

Carrotwood cupaniopsis anacardioides

Cupaniopsis is a genus of about 67 species of trees and shrubs known to science, of the soapberry plant family Sapindaceae. They grow naturally in New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia, Torres Strait Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Sulawesi, Micronesia. Many species have been threatened with extinction globally or nationally, with official recognition by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and several national and state governments.

Tuckeroo is a common name suffix for some species in Australia.

C. anacardioides has been introduced into the United States, where in some parts they are invasive plants, primarily in Florida and Hawaii, where the common name Carrotwood applies.

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Conservation

At global, national and government regional scales, many Cupaniopsis species have been threatened with extinction, as officially recognised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), governments of Australia, New Caledonia and so on.

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Globally, the New Caledonian endemic species C. crassivalvis has become extinct according to the IUCN's 1998 assessment. Seven species endemic to New Caledonia have become endangered with global extinction according to the IUCN's 1998 assessments. Five species endemic to New Guinea, one endemic to New Caledonia and one endemic to Sulawesi have become vulnerable to global extinction according to the IUCN's 1998 and 2010 assessments.

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In Australia, C. shirleyana and C. tomentella, small trees today found growing naturally only (endemic) in small areas of south eastern Queensland (Qld), have obtained the "vulnerable" species Australian government's national conservation status and together also with C. cooperorum, the Qld government's "vulnerable" species state conservation status. C. newmannii small trees in eastern Qld have obtained the Qld government's "near threatened" species state conservation status. C. serrata small trees in north-eastern New South Wales (NSW) have obtained the NSW government's "endangered" species state conservation status.

Naming and classification

European science formally named and described this genus in 1879 using C. anacardioides for the type species, authored by Bavarian botanist Ludwig A. T. Radlkofer.

In 1991 a 190-page monograph of the whole genus was published by Dutch botanist Frits Adema.

Australian botanist Sally T. Reynolds, from 1984 to 1991 published new formal scientific names, descriptions, updates and species clarifications, in her scientific journal articles and the Flora of Australia treatment.

Species

This listing was sourced from the Australian Plant Name Index and Australian Plant Census, the Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants information system, the Census of Vascular Plants of Papua New Guinea, the Checklist of the vascular indigenous Flora of New Caledonia, Flora Malesiana, Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest, "The Endemic Plants of Micronesia", Plants in Samoan Culture, Flora Vitiensis (Fiji), the 2013 Census of the Queensland Flora, the Flora of New South Wales, and the Flora of Australia.

Cupaniopsis acuticarpa Adema – New Guinea – Vulnerable

Cupaniopsis amoena A.C.Sm. – Fiji endemic

Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A.Rich.) Radlk., Tuckeroo – NSW, Qld, NT, WA, Australia, New Guinea

Cupaniopsis apiocarpa Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis azantha Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis baileyana Radlk. – NE. NSW, to SE. Qld endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis bilocularis Adema – New Guinea

Cupaniopsis bullata Adema – New Guinea – Vulnerable

Cupaniopsis celebica Adema – Sulawesi

Cupaniopsis chytradenia Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis concolor (Gillespie) R.W.Ham – Fiji endemic

Cupaniopsis cooperorum P.I.Forst. – NE. Qld endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis crassivalvis Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic – Extinct

Cupaniopsis curvidens Radlk. – New Guinea

Cupaniopsis dallachyi S.T.Reynolds – NE. Qld endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis diploglottoides Adema – NE. Qld endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis euneura Adema – New Guinea – Vulnerable

Cupaniopsis flagelliformis (F.M.Bailey) Radlk. – NSW, Qld, Australia

var. australis S.T.Reynolds – NE. NSW, to SE. Qld endemic, Australia

var. flagelliformis – Cape York to NE. Qld endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis fleckeri S.T.Reynolds – Torres Strait Is., Cape York Peninsula, Qld endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis foveolata (F.Muell.) Radlk. – Cape York Peninsula, NE to central E. Qld, endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis fruticosa Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis glabra Adema – New Caledonia endemic – Endangered

Cupaniopsis globosa Adema – New Caledonia endemic – Vulnerable

Cupaniopsis glomeriflora Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis grandiflora Adema – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis grisea Adema – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis guillauminii (Kaneh.) Adema – Chuuk Islands endemic (Micronesia)

Cupaniopsis hypodermatica Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis inoplea Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis kajewskii Merr. & L.M.Perry – New Guinea

Cupaniopsis leptobotrys (A.Gray) Radlk. – Fiji endemic

Cupaniopsis mackeeana Adema – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis macrocarpa Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic

var. macrocarpa – New Caledonia endemic

var. polyphylla – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis macropetala Radlk. – New Guinea

Cupaniopsis megalocarpa Adema – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis mouana Guillaumin – New Caledonia endemic – Endangered

Cupaniopsis myrmoctona Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis napaensis Adema – New Guinea – Vulnerable

Cupaniopsis newmanii S.T.Reynolds – NE. NSW, to SE. Qld endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis oedipoda Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis papillosa P.I.Forst., syn.: C. sp. (Tully Falls) – NE. Qld endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis parvifolia (F.M.Bailey) L.A.S.Johnson – NE. NSW, to E. Qld, endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis pennelii Guillaumin – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis petiolulata Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis phalacrocarpa Adema – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis phanerophlebia Merr. & L.M.Perry – New Guinea – Vulnerable

Cupaniopsis platycarpa Radlk. – New Guinea

Cupaniopsis rhytidocarpa Adema – New Guinea

Cupaniopsis rosea Adema – New Caledonia endemic – Endangered

Cupaniopsis rotundifolia Adema – New Caledonia endemic – Endangered

Cupaniopsis samoensis Christoph. – Samoa endemic

Cupaniopsis serrata (F.Muell.) Radlk. – NE. NSW, to SE. Qld endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis shirleyana (F.M.Bailey) Radlk. – SE. Qld endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis simulata S.T.Reynolds – NE. to SE. Qld, endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis squamosa Adema – New Caledonia endemic – Endangered

Cupaniopsis stenopetala Radlk. – New Guinea, Moluccas

Cupaniopsis strigosa Adema – Sulawesi – Vulnerable

Cupaniopsis subfalcata Adema – New Caledonia endemic – Endangered

Cupaniopsis sylvatica Guillaumin – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis tomentella (F.Muell. ex Benth.) S.T.Reynolds – SE. Qld endemic, Australia

Cupaniopsis tontoutensis Guillaumin – New Caledonia endemic – Endangered

Cupaniopsis trigonocarpa Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic

Cupaniopsis vitiensis Radlk. – Fiji endemic

Cupaniopsis wadsworthii (F.Muell.) Radlk. – NE. to E. central Qld, endemic, Australia

Species accepted by the official Census of the Queensland Flora 2013, while awaiting formal naming, description and publication

Cupaniopsis sp. (Biggenden J.Randall 600) – Biggenden and Childers areas, SE. central Queensland

Cupaniopsis sp. (Watalgan A.R.Bean 8611) – Gladstone region, E. central Queensland

References

Cupaniopsis Wikipedia

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Carrotwood cupaniopsis anacardioides

Contents

Conservation

Naming and classification

Species

References