''Alectryon connatus'', sometimes named hairy alectryon, is a species of small tree in the plant family
Sapindaceae.
They grow naturally in Australia, in eastern
Queensland
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from the south-east to northernmost
Cape York Peninsula
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, perhaps in north-eastern New South Wales
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,[ and in ]New Guinea
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.[ They grow in littoral rainforests, vine thickets, tropical monsoon forests (seasonal rainforests) and similar vegetation assemblages, in the lowlands. In the tropical uplands they are recorded up to altitude.][
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Naming and classification
European science formally described the species under the name ''Spanoghea connata'' in 1859, authored by German–Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller.[ In 1878, Bavarian botanist Ludwig A. T. Radlkofer formally renamed this species ''Alectryon connatus''.][
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Description
They grow to a small trees tall or sometimes as a shrub only.[
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References
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connatus
Flora of Queensland
Rosids of Western Australia
Flora of Papua New Guinea
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller