Guioa lasioneura, commonly known as silky tamarind or woolly-nerved Guioa, is a species of plant in the maple and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is native to northern and central parts of eastern Queensland, Australia.
Description Guioa lasioneura is a small tree growing to about tall. Young twigs and shoots are hairy, leaves are compound with one or two pairs of leaflets each. The leaflets are either or attached by a very short stalk up to long. They measure up to long by wide. Small flowers are clustered on short inflorescences about long. The fruit is a pink-purple three-lobed capsule up to long and wide.
Taxonomy The species was first described in 1879 by Bavarian botanist Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer.
Distribution and habitat It grows as an understorey tree in lowland and upland rainforest, at altitudes from near sea level to about . Its range extends from around Cape Tribulation to near Mackay, with the majority of sightings having been made between Palm Cove and the Paluma Range National Park.
Conservation , this species has been assessed to be of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and by the Queensland Government under its Nature Conservation Act.
The IUCN has not identified any threats to the species and considers the population to be stable.
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Map of herbarium collections of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium Observations of this species on iNaturalist Images of this species on Flickriver.com