Citation: F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:463 (1863).

Synonymy: Thouinia hemiglauca F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:98 (1859).

Common name: Whitewood.

Description:
Glaucous shrub or tree to 5 m high, glabrous except for the flowers; leaves either paripinnate with 2-6 pairs of leaflets which are linear to oblong, entire, 6-20 x 0.8-2 cm, or leaves simple, oblong to ovate, to 20 cm long.

Sepals ovate to broad-elliptic, 3-3.5 x 1.8-2.5 mm, finely sericeous outside; petals white, broad-oblong to obovate, 4.5-7.5 x 3-3.5 mm, pubescent with silky appressed hairs, pilose appendage at the base inside; stamen filaments 1.5-3 mm long; ovary 3-angled, densely silky-pubescent.

Samara 3-4 cm long including the wing, pubescent.

	Atalaya hemiglauca leaf and fruit.
Image source: fig 421a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, pp. 468, 469.

Distribution:  Mostly occurs in sandy soils in open woodlands in arid areas. S.Aust.: LE, EA.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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