Cryptocarya microneura

Cryptocarya microneura
	Fluted trunk
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Laurales
Family:	Lauraceae
Genus:	Cryptocarya
Species:	C. microneura
Binomial name
	Cryptocarya microneura; Meisn.

Cryptocarya microneura, commonly known as murrogun, murrogun laurel or brown jack,^[2] 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 15 m (49 ft), sometimes to 25 m (82 ft), its stems not buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, 62–115 mm (2.4–4.5 in) long and 20–45 mm (0.79–1.77 in) wide on a petiole 5–11 mm (0.20–0.43 in) 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 1.4–1.7 mm (0.055–0.067 in) long, the inner tepals 1.5–1.9 mm (0.059–0.075 in) long. The outer anthers 0.7–0.8 mm (0.028–0.031 in) long and 0.5–0.6 mm (0.020–0.024 in) wide, the inner anthers 0.6–0.8 mm (0.024–0.031 in) long and 0.3–0.5 mm (0.012–0.020 in) wide. Flowering occurs from September to November, and the fruit is a spherical to elliptic black drupe 12–14 mm (0.47–0.55 in) long and 10–14 mm (0.39–0.55 in) wide.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Taxonomy

Cryptocarya microneura was first formally described in 1864 by Carl Meissner in de Candolle's Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.^[6]^[7] The specific epithet (microneura) neans 'small-nerved'.^[8]

Distribution and habitat

This species of Cryptocarya grows in rainforest and wet forest from sea level to an altitude of 600 m (2,000 ft) from Gympie in Queensland to Tuross Heads in New South Wales.^[2]^[3]

References

^ "Cryptocarya microneura". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Le Cussan, J.; Hyland, Bernard P.M. "Cryptocarya microneura". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b Harden, Gwen J. "Cryptocarya microneura". Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
^ Floyd, Alex G. (1989). Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia. Inkata Press. p. 180. ISBN 0909605572.
^ "Cryptocarya microneura". Lucid Apps. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
^ "Cryptocarya microneura". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
^ Meissner, Carl (1864). de Candolle, Augustin P. (ed.). Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis. Vol. 15. Paris: Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Würtz. pp. 73–74. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
^ George, Alex; Sharr, Francis (2021). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 252. ISBN 9780958034180.