Owenia cepiodora— Bog Onion, Onion Cedar—MELIACEAE
Habitat—In subtropical and dry rainforest.
Distribution— North from Bangalow in New South Wales to McPherson Range in Queensland.; very rare.
Description— Tree up to 30 m high, buds resinous, glabrous; freshly cut bark smells of onions.
Leaves.— Compound, terminal leaf absent, no oil dots or domatia, clustered at end of branches, imparipinnate, 30 to 60 cm long; leaflets 17 to 25, ± opposite or alternate, narrow–elliptic to narrow–ovate, 7 to 14 cm long, 15 to 35 mm wide, apex acuminate, base asymmetric or cuneate, margins ± entire, glabrous, upper surface glossy, secondary veins numerous and prominent on lower surface; petiole 5 to 10 cm long, petiolules 3 to 10 mm long.
Inflorescence.—Panicles 10 to 20 cm long. Petals 3 to 4 mm long, white. Staminal tube c. 2 mm long.
Fruit.—Drupe globose, 15 to 20 cm diam., reddish.