''Cryptocarya bellendenkerana'' is a tree in the laurel family and is endemic to

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. Its leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, the flowers creamy-green and tube-shaped, and the fruit a spherical black

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Description

''Cryptocarya bellendenkerana'' is a rainforest tree that typically grows to a height of , its stems sometimes buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

s shorter than the leaves and sometimes have an unpleasant odour. The tepals are long, the outer

anthers The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filam ...

long and wide, the inner anthers long and wide. Flowering mostly occurs from September to January, and the fruit is a spherical black drupe long and wide.

Taxonomy

''Cryptocarya bellendenkerana'' was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland in '' Australian Systematic Botany'', from specimens collected by Hyland collected in 1982.

Distribution and habitat

This species of ''Cryptocarya'' grows in mountain rainforest from south of Cooktown to

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in north Queensland, at altitudes between .

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18077442 Laurales of Australia Trees of Australia Flora of Queensland bellendenkerana Taxa named by Bernard Hyland Plants described in 1989