Synonym: Karrabina benthamiana.
English: Red carabeen; Leather jacket; Brush mahogany; Red bean; Pink marara; Brush mararie.
Genus: 2 species, Karrabina benthamiana and Karrabina biagiana.
Region: north–eastern New South Wales, south–eastern Queensland.
Habitat: warm temperate and sub tropical rainforest areas, in mountain gullies.
Botany: tree to around 35 metres tall, 140 cm in diameter; trunk round, often buttressed at the base; bark wrinkly brown; leaves pinnate, opposite, three leaflets; leaflets significantly toothed, ± 10 cm long, smooth and green on both surfaces, darker above, midrib and lateral leaf veins are evident on both surfaces, conspicuously raised beneath; 12 to 16 net veins ending in a leaf tooth; inflorescence a slender raceme; flowers yellow, appear from October to January; fruit a downy capsule, almost cylindrical; seeds flat, several in each of the two cells in the capsule; seed germination occurs rapidly.
TaxonomyKarrabina benthamiana was formerly placed in the genus Geissois