title: Alectryon connatus
text: # Alectryon connatus
  
  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 from the south-east to northernmost Cape York Peninsula, Western Australia, perhaps in north-eastern New South Wales, and in New Guinea. 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 800 m (2,600 ft) altitude.
  
  ## 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.
  
  ## Description
  
  They grow to a small trees 12–20 m (40–70 ft) tall or sometimes as a shrub only.
  
  