Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cryptocarya microneura
Common name
Murrogun, Brown Jack
Family
Lauraceae
Where found
Forest. Coast and ranges north from the Bega district.
Notes
Tree to 25 m high. Trunk not buttressed. Fruit fleshy. Bark grey and corky on small trees, greyish to reddish and scaly on large trees. Young stems cylindrical, covered in straight, appressed, fawn hairs, eventually becoming almost hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 6–12 cm long, 20–45 mm wide, midrib raised and rounded below, slightly raised above, whitish, both surfaces hairless, upper surface green and glossy, lower surface paler and often somewhat glaucous, tips bluntly pointed. Flowers not perfumed, yellowish to cream, 3-4 mm long, with 6 'petals' each 1.4–1.9 mm long. Flower clusters shorter than to longer than the leaves. Flowers Sept.–Nov. Fruit black, globular to oval or elliptical, pointed, 11–14 mm long, ripe Dec.-July.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cryptocarya~microneura (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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