''Cryptocarya dorrigoensis'', commonly known as Dorrigo laurel, is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is native to northern New South Wales. It is a tree with lance-shaped leaves, the flowers greenish-cream to creamy-yellow but not perfumed, and the fruit is a spherical to elliptic, black to bluish-black

drupe In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pit'', ''stone'', or '' pyrena'') of hardened endocarp with a seed (''kernel'') ...

Description

''Cryptocarya dorrigoensis'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of , its stems not buttressed but its young growth densely hairy. Its leaves are lance-shaped, egg-shaped to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are greenish-cream to creamy-yellow, usually arranged in a

raceme A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the s ...

less than the leaves but not perfumed, the perianth tube long and wide and hairy inside. The tepals are long and wide, 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 about wide, the inner anthers long and about wide. Flowering occurs from May to November, and the fruit is a black to bluish-black, spherical to elliptic drupe long and wide.

Taxonomy

''Cryptocarya dorrigoensis'' was first formally described in 1989 by

Bernard Patrick Matthew Hyland Bernard Hyland (Bernard Patrick Matthew Hyland, born 1937), known as Bernie Hyland, is an Australian botanist. He has contributed significantly to the understanding of Australian plants, in particular numerous species of his home and workplace ...

in '' Australian Systematic Botany'' from specimens collected by Cyril Tenison White near Dorrigo in 1930.

Distribution and habitat

Dorrigo laurel grows in mountain rainforest from near

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to Point Lookout at altitudes of .

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15611853 Laurales of Australia Trees of Australia dorrigoensis Plants described in 1989 Flora of New South Wales Taxa named by Bernard Hyland