Cryptocarya microneura
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|genus = Cryptocarya
|species = microneura
|authority =Meisn.{{cite web |title=Cryptocarya microneura |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/88440 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=7 August 2024}}
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Cryptocarya microneura, commonly known as murrogun, murrogun laurel or brown jack,{{cite web |last1=Le Cussan |first1=J. |last2=Hyland |first2=Bernard P.M. |title=Cryptocarya microneura |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Cryptocarya%20microneura |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. |access-date=7 August 2024}} is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a rainforest tree with lance-shaped to elliptic leaves, the flowers cream-coloured and tube-shaped but not perfumed, and the fruit a spherical to elliptic black drupe.
Description
Cryptocarya microneura, is a tree that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|15|m}}, sometimes to {{cvt|25|m}}, its stems not buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, {{cvt|62–115|mm}} long and {{cvt|20–45|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|5–11|mm}} long. The leaves are green and more or less glaucous on the lower surface. The flowers are cream-coloured and arranged in panicles sometimes longer than the leaves, sometimes shorter than the leaves. The outer tepals are {{cvt|1.4–1.7|mm}} long, the inner tepals {{cvt|1.5–1.9|mm}} long. The outer anthers {{cvt|0.7–0.8|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.5–0.6|mm}} wide, the inner anthers {{cvt|0.6–0.8|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.3–0.5|mm}} wide. Flowering occurs from September to November, and the fruit is a spherical to elliptic black drupe {{cvt|12–14|mm}} long and {{cvt|10–14|mm}} wide.{{cite web |last1=Harden |first1=Gwen J. |title=Cryptocarya microneura |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cryptocarya~microneura |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney |access-date=7 August 2024}}{{cite book |authorlink=Alexander Floyd |first=Alex G. |last=Floyd |title=Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia |publisher=Inkata Press |year=1989 |isbn=0909605572 |page=180}}{{cite web |title=Cryptocarya microneura |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/plants_se_nsw/text/entities/cryptocarya_microneura.htm |publisher=Lucid Apps |access-date=7 August 2024}}
Taxonomy
Cryptocarya microneura was first formally described in 1864 by Carl Meissner in de Candolle's Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.{{cite web |title=Cryptocarya microneura |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/509094|publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=7 August 2024}}{{cite book |last1=Meissner |first1=Carl |editor-last1=de Candolle |editor-first1=Augustin P. |title=Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis |volume=15 |date=1864 |publisher=Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Würtz |location=Paris |pages=73–74 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7165#page/79/mode/1upp |access-date=7 August 2024}} The specific epithet (microneura) neans 'small-nerved'.{{cite book |last1=George |first1=Alex |last2=Sharr |first2=Francis |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2021 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=252 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
This species of Cryptocarya grows in rainforest and wet forest from sea level to an altitude of {{cvt|600|m}} from Gympie in Queensland to Tuross Heads in New South Wales.
References
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External links
- {{cite web |title=Cryptocarya microneura Meisn. |work=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2904200}}
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Category:Flora of New South Wales