Bouchardatia neurococca
Bouchardatia neurococca, commonly known as union nut, is a species of small rainforest tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has pinnate leaves with three or five narrow elliptical leaflets, white flowers arranged in panicles, and oval follicles. Description. "Bouchardatia neurococca" is a tree that typically grows to a height of and has smooth greyish brown to dark brown bark. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs and pinnate with three or five narrow elliptical to lance-shaped leaves with the narrow end towards the base. The leaves are long on a petiole long, the leaflets long  and wide. The upper surface of the leaves is glossy dark green, the lower surface yellowish green and there are small, hairy domatia. The flowers are arranged in panicles long, on the ends of branchlets or in leaf axils, with four sepals long, four white petals long and eight stamens that alternate in length. The fruit is an ovoid follicle long. Taxonomy. The union nut was first formally described in 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name "Euodia neurococca" and published the description in "Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae". In 1870, Henri Ernest Baillon changed the name to "Bouchardatia  neurococca" in the journal "Adansonia". Distribution and habitat. "Bouchardatia neurococca" grows in subtropical and dry rainforest from near sea level to an altitude of and from Mackay in central-eastern Queensland to the Richmond River in north-eastern New South Wales.