''Daphnandra'' is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family

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. The genus is endemic to

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. There are six species, occurring in

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Daphnandra apatela ''Daphnandra apatela'', the socketwood, light yellowwood or canary socketwood is a common rainforest tree in eastern Australia. It grows in the more fertile alluvial soils and basaltic soils. Distributed from the Watagan Mountains (31° S) in ...

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Socket wood, yellow wood, canary socketwood, satin wood *''

Daphnandra johnsonii ''Daphnandra johnsonii'', also known as the Illawarra socketwood, is a rare rainforest tree in the Illawarra district of eastern Australia. Habitat It is found most often at less than 150 metres above sea level on volcanic soils in sub tropi ...

Illawarra socketwood *''

Daphnandra melasmena ''Daphnandra melasmena'', commonly known as the socketwood, or black-leaved socketwood is a rainforest tree in eastern Australia. It grows on the more fertile basaltic soils, often associated with the White Booyong. Found from near Bowraville, N ...

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Daphnandra micrantha ''Daphnandra micrantha'', the socketwood or Manning River socketwood is a rainforest tree in eastern Australia. It grows near streams in various types of rainforest. Restricted to the Manning River and Hastings River valleys (31° S) of norther ...

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Sassafras, grey sassafras, northern sassafras, northern yellow sassafras, scentless sassafras, yellow sassafras *''

Daphnandra tenuipes ''Daphnandra tenuipes'', commonly known as the socket sassafrass, or red-flowered socketwood is a rainforest tree in eastern Australia. It grows on the more fertile basaltic and wikt:alluvial, alluvial soils. Found from near Boorganna Nature Res ...

'' J.R.Perkins, Red-flowered socketwood, socket sassafras The generic name ''Daphnandra'' refers to a similarity of the

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of the

bay laurel ''Laurus nobilis'' is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub with green, glabrous (smooth) leaves. It is in the flowering plant family Lauraceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and is used as bay leaf for seasoning in cooking. I ...

. Greek ''daphne'' refers to the bay laurel, and ''andros'' from the Greek for man.

References

Atherospermataceae Laurales genera Laurales of Australia {{Australia-plant-stub