Lepiderema hirsuta (Noah's tamarind)

Lepiderema hirsuta S.T.Reynolds (1982 April 14) . 

Zich et al. (2020) Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants information system (RFK ed. 8), 
quotation: " 

Distribution and Ecology

Endemic to the wet tropics bio-region NE. Qld, 
known only from the Noah Creek area north of the Daintree River, the McDowall Range and the Mt Pieter Botte area. 
Altitudinal range from near sea level to 900 m. 
Grows as an under-storey plant in well developed, undisturbed lowland and upland rain forest.

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Was rarely recorded in the Mossman Gorge area, in addition to the above recorded areas. 
A herbaria specimen from Mossman Gorge was collected decades ago in 1989 December 4th and lodged in the Brisbane, Qld herbarium: https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/663a82de-7752-4ce4-8c0a-640e3a371ee4 .

Since 2014 I have made numerous records of the Mossman Gorge population of numerous trees of this rare species.
While in Mossman Gorge recording this species, sometimes a few field workers from a variety of backgrounds have asserted to me their mis-identification of these plants as Cupaniopsis foveolata which occurs in Mossman Gorge as well. These two species of trees have obvious differences to us specifically–informed field observers, in indumentum, new foliage growth and foliage generally, let alone in the prominently different fertile parts of their flowers and fruits .
@JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 2025 August 29th .

Botanical Scholarly Literature References:  

• Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and Australian Plant Census (APC) (2024):
Council of the Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH):
Lepiderema hirsuta S.T.Reynolds (1982 April 14): → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/66970/api/apni-format  .
Viewed: 2025 August 28th .

• Zich Frank A., Bernie P. M. Hyland, Trevor Whiffin, Raelee A. Kerrigan (2020) 
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants information system and botanical matrix identification key - edition 8 ('RFK 8'): 
Lepiderema hirsuta S.T.Reynolds fact sheet: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/Lepiderema_hirsuta.htm 
Main site web page: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/.
Viewed: 2025 August 28th .

• Forster Paul I & Gordon P Guymer, Qld Herbarium (2025) 
Lepiderema hirsuta S.T.Reynolds – "Nature Conservation Act (NCA) Status : Near Threatened".
Census of the Queensland Flora and Fungi 2024. 
Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government.
→ http://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/census-of-the-queensland-flora-and-fungi-2024 
Dataset Accessed: 2025 July 19th .

• Cooper, Wendy and William T (2004 June) 
Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest.
—pages: 494 (–495).
Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia: Nokomis Editions. ISBN 9780958174213 .

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