Harpullia arborea

Harpullia arborea is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to , sometimes to , with a trunk dbh of , its branchlets covered with woolly brown hairs. Its leaves are paripinnate, long with 6 to 10 elliptic to egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long and wide on a petiole long. Separate male and female flowers are borne on the same plant, usually in racemes in leaf axils, sometimes on old wood, and are long. Each flower is on a pedicel long. The sepals are long and covered with woolly hairs. The petals are pink or pale green and long, there are 5 stamens, and the ovary is covered with soft hairs. The fruit is a broadly heart-shaped, orange-yellow to red capsule long, containing shiny black seeds. ==Taxonomy==

This species was first formally described in 1837 by Francisco Manuel Blanco who gave it the name Ptelea arborea in his Flora de Filipinas. In 1887, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer transferred the species to Harpullia as H. arborea. The specific epithet (arborea) means 'tree-like'. ==Distribution and habitat==

Harpullia arborea usually grows in rainforest or monsoon forest in India, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Peninsular Malaysia, Nepal, New Guinea, the Philippines, Australia, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu and Vietnam. In New Guinea, it has been recorded in Madang, Morobe, the New Guinea Highlands, Milne Bay, New Britain and Bougainville. In Australia, it occurs from the Kutini-Payamu National Park on Cape York Peninsula to Cardwell in north-east Queensland. ==References==