Cryptocarya brassii

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Yellow laurel
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Cryptocarya
Species:
C. brassii
Binomial name
Cryptocarya brassii

Cryptocarya brassii is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is native to far north Queensland and Papua New Guinea. Its leaves are elliptic to oblong or lance-shaped, the flowers cream-coloured and tube-shaped, and the fruit an elliptic black to bluish-black drupe.

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Description

Cryptocarya brassii is a tree that typically grows to a height of 20 m (66 ft), its stem sometimes buttressed. Its leaves are elliptic to oblong or lance-shaped 100–140 mm (3.9–5.5 in) long and 35–65 mm (1.4–2.6 in) wide on a petiole 7–13 mm (0.28–0.51 in) long. The leaves are pinnately veined and more or less glaucous on the lower surface. The flowers are cream-coloured and arranged in panicles about the same length as long as the leaves. The tepals are 1.5–1.6 mm (0.059–0.063 in) long, the outer anthers 0.7–0.9 mm (0.028–0.035 in) long and 0.5–0.7 mm (0.020–0.028 in) wide, the inner anthers 0.8–1.0 mm (0.031–0.039 in) long and about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) wide. Flowering occurs in September, and the fruit is an elliptic black or bluish-black drupe 14–15 mm (0.55–0.59 in) long and about 11 mm (0.43 in) wide. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Cryptocarya brassii was first formally described in 1942 by Caroline Kathryn Allen in the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum from specimens collected in the Middle Fly River by Leonard John Brass. [4] [5]

Distribution and habitat

This species of laurel grows in gallery forest at altitudes between 40 and 100 m (130 and 330 ft) from Bamaga to Coen on Cape York Peninsula and in New Guinea. [2] [3]

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References

  1. "Cryptocarya brassii". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  2. 1 2 Le Cussan, J.; Hyland, Bernard P.M. "Cryptocarya brassii". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Cryptocarya brassii". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  4. "Cryptocarya brassii". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  5. Allen, Caroline K. (1942). "tudies in the Lauraceae, IV". Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 23 (2): 137–138. Retrieved 16 June 2024.