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steelwood

Sarcopteryx stipata

Sarcopteryx stipata, known as the steelwood, is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. Occurring from the Bulga Plateau and Comboyne Plateau north west of Taree, New South Wales. As far north as Fraser Island off the coast of south eastern Queensland. The habitat is sub tropical rainforest. Though it sometimes occurs in the warm temperate rainforests on poorer soils. A member of the soap berry family. The generic name Sarcopteryx translates to "fleshy wing", as the...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 538066.