Cryptocarya nova-anglica

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Mountain laurel
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Young specimen
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Cryptocarya
Species:
C. nova-anglica
Binomial name
Cryptocarya nova-anglica
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Flower

Cryptocarya nova-anglica, commonly known as mountain laurel, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a tree with lance-shaped leaves, creamy green flowers, and elliptic to spherical to pear-shaped black drupes.

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Description

Cryptocarya nova-anglica is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to 20 m (66 ft) with a dbh of 45 cm (18 in), its stems not buttressed, but often with coppice shoots at the base. Its new growth has fawn-coloured hairs pressed against the stem, but is later glabrous. Its leaves are egg-shaped, lance-shaped or elliptic, 30–70 mm (1.2–2.8 in) long and 16–35 mm (0.6–1.4 in) wide on a petiole 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long, glossy green on the upper surface and glaucous below. The flowers are arranged in racemes barely longer than the petioles, and mostly in leaf axils. They are creamy-green, the perianth tube about 2 mm (0.08 in) long and 1.5 mm (0.06 in) wide. The outer anthers are 0.9 mm (0.04 in) long and 0.6 mm (0.02 in) wide, the inner anthers about 0.9 mm (0.04 in) long and 0.5 mm (0.02 in) wide. Flowering occurs from December to January, and the fruit is a spherical to pear-shaped black drupe, 12.5–15 mm (0.5–0.6 in) long and 13.0–13.5 mm (0.51–0.53 in) wide with creamy cotyledons. [2] [3] [4]

Taxonomy

Cryptocarya nova-anglica was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland and Alexander Floyd in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected at Point Lookout in the New England National Park. [5]

Distribution and habitat

This species of Cryptocarya grows in montane rainforest, often with Nothofagus moorei , at altitudes between 1,100 and 1,350 m (3,610 and 4,430 ft), and is found in northern New South Wales between Mount Nothofagus in the McPherson Range and Mount Boss near Wauchope. [2] [4]

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References

  1. "Cryptocarya nova-anglica". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 Le Cussan, J.; Hyland, Bernard P.M. "Cryptocarya nova-anglica". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  3. Floyd, A.G. (2008). Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia. Inkata Press. p. 188. ISBN   978-0-9589436-7-3.
  4. 1 2 Harden, Gwen J. "Cryptocarya nova-anglica". Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  5. "Cryptocarya nova-anglica". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 17 August 2024.