Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pennantia cunninghamii
Common name
Brown beech
Family
Pennantiaceae
Where found
Rainforest, and rocky gullies near streams. Coast and ranges north from Monga National Park east of Braidwood. Mostly north from Nowra..
Notes
Tree to 30 m high. Fruit fleshy. Trunk irregularly fluted. Bark dark grey to brown, often with corky warts and small scales. Branchlets hairless, often strongly zigzagged, lenticels prominent. Leaves alternating up the stems, 7–18 cm long, 40–80 mm wide, soft, both surfaces hairless and glossy, pit-like domatia prominent, mainly in the forks of the secondary veins, margins entire, usually wavy, sometimes toothed in juvenile leaves, tips tapering to a point, pointed, or rarely blunt. Bisexual and male flowers on different plants. Flowers white, with 5 petals, each 3–4 mm long, curved back. Flowers in branched clusters 5–12 cm long. Fruit black, oval, 10–16 mm long, 7–9 mm in diameter. Flowering: Chiefly summer.
Family was Icacinaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pennantia~cunninghamii (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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