Toechima tenax, known as the brush teak, is a rainforest tree found in eastern Australia. The specific epithet tenax probably refers to the tough wood.
A small tree with a bright green canopy, up to 18 metres tall and a stem diameter of 30 cm. The trunk is irregular, grey and smooth, the tree's base is usually buttressed.[1]
toechima, tenax, known, brush, teak, rainforest, tree, found, eastern, australia, specific, epithet, tenax, probably, refers, tough, wood, brush, teakscientific, classificationkingdom, plantaeclade, tracheophytesclade, angiospermsclade, eudicotsclade, rosidsor. Toechima tenax known as the brush teak is a rainforest tree found in eastern Australia The specific epithet tenax probably refers to the tough wood Brush teakScientific classificationKingdom PlantaeClade TracheophytesClade AngiospermsClade EudicotsClade RosidsOrder SapindalesFamily SapindaceaeGenus ToechimaSpecies T tenaxBinomial nameToechima tenax Benth Radlk SynonymsRatonia tenax Benth Cupania tenax Benth F Muell It grows in the drier rainforests from the Richmond River New South Wales in the south to Bundaberg in Queensland in the north It is rarely seen in New South Wales A small tree with a bright green canopy up to 18 metres tall and a stem diameter of 30 cm The trunk is irregular grey and smooth the tree s base is usually buttressed 1 References edit Floyd A G 2008 Rainforest Trees of Mainland South eastern Australia Inkata Press p 403 ISBN 978 0 9589436 7 3 External links edit Toechimatenax Benth Radlk Atlas of Living Australia nbsp This Sapindales related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This Australian rosid article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Toechima tenax amp oldid 1048809767, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
