Angophora bakeri
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|name = Narrow-leaved apple
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|genus = Angophora
|species = bakeri
|authority = E.C.Hall{{cite web |title=Angophora bakeri |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/91724|website=Australian Plant Census |access-date=4 March 2020}}
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|range_map = Angophora bakeri DistMap.png
|range_map_caption = Occurrence data from AVH
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Angophora bakeri, commonly known as the narrow-leaved apple,{{cite web |last1=Hill |first1=Ken |title=Angophora bakeri |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Angophora~bakeri |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=4 March 2020}} is a species of tree that is endemic to New South Wales. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three or seven, white or creamy white flowers and oval to cylindrical fruit.
Description
Angophora bakeri is a tree that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|10-18|m}} and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous grey bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves that are more or less sessile, {{cvt|50-100|mm}} long, {{cvt|4-10|mm}} wide and arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are thin, glossy green, paler on the lower surface, linear to narrow lance-shaped, {{cvt|60-130|mm}} long, {{cvt|5-10|mm|sigfig=1}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|3-10|mm|sigfig=1}} long, and arranged in opposite pairs. The flower buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets in groups of three or seven on a peduncle {{cvt|7-18|mm|sigfig=1}} long, the individual buds on pedicels {{cvt|4-11|mm|sigfig=1}} long. Mature buds are {{cvt|4-5|mm}} long and {{cvt|4-6|mm}} wide. There are five sepals up to {{cvt|1|mm|sigfig=1}} long and the petals are about {{cvt|3|mm|sigfig=1}} long and wide. Flowering occurs from December to February and the flowers are white or creamy white. The fruit is an oval to cylindrical, pale brown or grey capsule {{cvt|8-10|mm|sigfig=1}} long and wide with ribbed sides.{{cite web |last1=Chippendale |first1=George M. |title=Angophora bakeri |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Angophora%20bakeri |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra |access-date=4 March 2020}}{{cite web |title=Angophora bakeri subsp. bakeri |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/angophora_bakeri_subsp._bakeri.htm |publisher=Euclid: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research |access-date=5 June 2020}}
Taxonomy and naming
Angophora bakeri was first formally described in 1913 by Edwin Cuthbert Hall in the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.{{cite web|title=Angophora bakeri|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/513986|publisher=APNI|access-date=4 March 2020}}{{cite journal |last1=Hall |first1=Edwin C. |title=The seedlings of the Angophoras, and descriptions of a new species |journal=Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales |date=1913 |volume=47 |pages=101–105 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/130132#page/131/mode/1up |access-date=4 March 2020}} The specific epithet honours Richard Thomas Baker.
In 1986, G.J.Leach described two subspecies in the journalTelopea and the names have been accepted by the Australian Plant Census:{{cite journal |last1=Leach |first1=Gregory J. |title=A Revision of the genus Angophora (Myrtaceae) |journal=Telopea |date=1986 |volume=2 |issue=6 |pages=749–779 |doi=10.7751/telopea19864614 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/265164#page/181/mode/1up |access-date=4 March 2020|doi-access=free }}
- Angophora bakeri subsp. bakeri{{cite web |title=Angophora bakeri subsp. bakeri |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/91724|website=Australian Plant Census |access-date=4 March 2020}} has thin, flexible leaves and is widely distributed;
- Angophora bakeri subsp. crassifolia G.J.Leach{{cite web |title=Angophora bakeri subsp. crassifolia |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/91724|website=Australian Plant Census |access-date=4 March 2020}} has rigid, relatively thick leaves and is mostly only known from the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.
Distribution and habitat
Narrow-leaved apple grows in sandy soil over sandstone and is widespread and locally abundant from Port Stephens to Nowra and as far west as Katoomba. There is also a disjunct population, previously known as Angophora exul, now a synonym of A. bakeri subsp. bakeri in the Gibraltar Range National Park.
Gallery
File:Angophora bakeri bark (11463801376).jpg|Bark
Angophora bakeri buds (11463634435).jpg|Buds
File:Angophora bakeri buds and leaves (11463767756).jpg|Buds, foliage and old seed pods
File:Angophora Great North Walk Lane Cove NP.jpg|Foliage
File:Angophora bakeri P1120345 (39630318252).jpg|Flowers
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