Cupaniopsis

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Cupaniopsis
Leaves and fruit of C. anacardiodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Sapindales Family: Sapindaceae Genus: Cupaniopsis Radlk.
Species
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Cupaniopsis is a genus of about 60 species of shrubs and trees in the soapberry family Sapindaceae. They are native to New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia and Fiji. In Australia, they are commonly known as tuckeroos.

Selected species

• Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A.Rich.) Radlk.
• Cupaniopsis baileyana Radlk.
• Cupaniopsis cooperorum P.I.Forst.
• Cupaniopsis curvidentata (F.M.Bailey) Radlk.
• Cupaniopsis dallachyi S.T.Reynolds
• Cupaniopsis diploglottoides Adema
• Cupaniopsis flagelliformis (F.M.Bailey) Radlk.
• Cupaniopsis fleckeri S.T.Reynolds
• Cupaniopsis foveolata (F.Muell.) Radlk.
• Cupaniopsis newmanii S.T.Reynolds
• Cupaniopsis papillosa P.I.Forst.
• Cupaniopsis parvifolia (F.M.Bailey) L.A.S.Johnson
• Cupaniopsis serrata (F.Muell.) Radlk.
• Cupaniopsis shirleyana (F.M.Bailey) Radlk.
• Cupaniopsis simulatus S.T.Reynolds
• Cupaniopsis tomentella (F.Muell. ex Benth.) S.T.Reynolds
• Cupaniopsis wadsworthii (F.Muell.) Radlk.

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One Australian species, C. anacardioides, is an invasive plant is some parts of the United States, primarily Florida and Hawaii, where it has been renamed "carrotwood".^[2]

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