Cryptocarya floydii

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Glenugie laurel
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Glenugie Peak, the type location of Cryptocarya floydii
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Cryptocarya
Species:
C. floydii
Binomial name
Cryptocarya floydii

Cryptocarya floydii, commonly known as Glenugie laurel or gorge laurel is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a tree with lance-shaped leaves, pale green tube-shaped flowers, and spherical black drupes.

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Description

Cryptocarya floydii is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to 15 m (49 ft) and a trunk dbh of 25 cm (9.8 in). [2] The trunk is irregular, sometimes fluted, buttressed and multi-stemmed. The leaves are lance-shaped, mostly 30–110 mm (1.2–4.3 in) long, 10–35 mm (0.39–1.38 in) wide and leathery, the upper surface dark green and shiny, the lower surface dull green. The flowers are dull green and borne in panicles that are shorter than the leaves, the perianth tube 1.6 mm (0.063 in) long and 1.7 mm (0.067 in) wide. The tepals are 2.2 mm (0.087 in) long and 1.1 mm (0.043 in) wide, the outer anthers 0.7 mm (0.028 in) long and 0.5 mm (0.020 in) wide, the inner anthers 0.7 mm (0.028 in) long and 0.4 mm (0.016 in) wide. Flowering occurs between October and February and the fruit is a spherical black drupe, 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) long and 12–18 mm (0.47–0.71 in) wide. [3] [4]

Taxonomy

Cryptocarya floydii was first formally described in 1979 by André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans in the journal Brunonia , from specimens collected on Glenugie Peak near Grafton in 1959. [5]

Distribution and habitat

This species of Cryptocarya grows in drier rainforest, usually in rocky areas, at altitudes between 300 and 1,050 m (980 and 3,440 ft) between the Bunya Mountains in southern Queensland and Wollomombi Falls in northern New South Wales. [3] [4]

Ecology

A thin layer of flesh over the relatively large seed would offer little nourishment for feeding birds. Alexander Floyd considers this fruit to be mimetic, as the fruit resembles more fleshy fruits such as the vine Tetrastigma nitens . [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cryptocarya floydii". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  2. ↑ Floyd, A.G. (2008). Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia. Inkata Press. p. 182. ISBN   978-0-9589436-7-3.
  3. 1 2 "Cryptocarya floydii". PlantNET - NSW Flora Online. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  4. 1 2 Le Cussan, J.; Hyland, Bernard P.M. "Cryptocarya floydii". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  5. ↑ "Cryptocarya floydii". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  6. ↑ Floyd, A.G. (1990). Australian Rainforests in New South Wales. Vol. 1. Surrey Beatty & Sons. photo 25. ISBN   0-949324-30-2.
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