Diploglottis
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{{Taxobox
| name = ''Diploglottis''
| image = Diploglottis cunninghamii - Baillon.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Diploglottis cunninghamii]]''
| image_width = 240px
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Sapindales]]
| familia = [[Sapindaceae]]
| genus = '''''Diploglottis'''''
| genus_authority = [[Ferdinand von Mueller|F. Muell]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}
'''''Diploglottis''''' is a genus of 10 species of [[tree]] in the soapberry family [[Sapindaceae]]. Eight of the species are found in eastern [[Australia]], primarily as a [[rainforest]] tree and the other two are in eastern [[Malesia]] and [[New Caledonia]].
They are distinguished by their deep, green leaflets which are arranged oppositely, and the leaflets form paripinnite leaves.
One Australian species, ''D. cunninghamii'' is grown as a street tree in the Northern Rivers area of [[New South Wales]], principally [[Lismore, New South Wales|Lismore]] and is known locally as the native tamarind. It has no direct relationship with the true [[tamarind]].
Yet another endemic Australian species is [[Diploglottis campbellii]], also known as the small leaved tamarind, is rare and threatened and is restriced to a small number of sites each with a maximum of 3 trees per site. However, the tree, as a seedling, is readily available from nurseries in the [[Northern Rivers, New South Wales|Northern Rivers]] area of New South Wales, and in south-eastern Queensland
There are a total of 42 known mature wild trees in south east Queensland and north eastern New South Wales. the small leaved tamarind grows to 30 metres and has a compacted canopy making it good to use as a screening tree. It has small three lobed fruit capsules. Fruit is red when ripe and can be made into a jam.
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Image:D_campbelli.jpg|''D. campbellii'' seedling
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Other species in this genus include <br />
*''D. australis''
*''D. berniana''
*''D. bracteata''
*''[[Diploglottis campbellii|D.campbellii]]''
*''D. cunninghamiana''
*''D. cunninghamii''
*''D. cunninghamii var. diphyllostegia''
*''D. diphyllostegia''
*''D. harpullioides''
*''D. macrantha''
*''D. smithii''
''Diploglottis'' species are used as food plants by the [[Hepialidae|hepialid]] [[moth]]s ''[[Aenetus|Aenetus ramsayi]]'' and ''[[Aenetus|Aenetus scotti]]''.
[[Category:Sapindaceae]]
[[Category:Sapindales of Australia]]
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