''Eucryphia jinksii'', the Springbrook leatherwood, is a species of rare rainforest trees found in Queensland and New South Wales,
Australia
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, of the plant family Cunoniaceae.
They grow naturally to 30m tall yet were discovered as a new species only in 1994 by David Jinks.
''Eucryphia jinksii''’s endemic, very restricted and threatened distribution has obtained the conservation status of " endangered", officially listed in the regulation current , of the Queensland government legislation, the '' Nature Conservation Act 1992''.
Distribution and habitat
It is known from a single creek catchment in Warm Temperate Rainforest on the Springbrook Plateau. Another stand has been discovered growing not as trees but as a thicket of multi stemmed shrubs on a wind sheared clifftop also in the Springbrook Area. It grows in New South Wales at
Numinbah Nature Reserve
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caldera
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