Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Daphnandra johnsonii
Common name
Illawarra socketwood
Family
Atherospermataceae
Where found
Rainforest, wet forest, disturbed forest, forest margins, rocky sites, and gullies. Coast and ranges mainly between Port Kembla and Gerroa.
Notes
Tree to 20 m high. Rhizomatous. Bark smooth with raised blisters. Branchlets flattened at the nodes. Young stems hairy with simple appressed cream hairs, soon becoming hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 6–12 cm long, 15–60 mm wide, with a raised or flattened mid-vein on the upper surface, margins coarsely toothed except for the basal half or third. Flowers pale greenish white, rarely with a pink margin, with 15-20 'petals' each 3-4.5 mm long, in 3 or 4 whorls. Flowers in many-flowered branched clusters. Flowering: spring.
Was Family Monimiaceae.
Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10201 (accessed 5 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Daphnandra~johnsonii (accessed 5 January 2021)
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