Cryptocarya grandis explained

Cryptocarya grandis, commonly known as cinnamon laurel or white laurel,[1] is a tree in the laurel family and is endemic to north Queensland. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, the flowers creamy-green, unpleasantly perfumed and tube-shaped, and the fruit a spherical drupe.

Description

Cryptocarya grandis is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to, its stems sometimes buttressed and its twigs glabrous. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in panicles longer than the leaves and are unpleasantly perfumed, the perianth long and wide and hairy near the tip. The outer tepals are long and wide and the inner tepals are long and wide. The outer anthers long and wide, the inner anthers long and wide and hairy. Flowering occurs from November to February, and the fruit is spherical drupe long and wide with creamy-white cotyledons.[2]

Taxonomy

Cryptocarya grandis was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected by Bruce Gray in 1980.[3]

Distribution and habitat

Cinnamon laurel grows in rainforest at altitudes from sea level to from near the Iron Range to Eungella in north Queensland.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Le Cussan . J. . Hyland . Bernard P.M. . Cryptocarya grandis . Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. . 16 July 2024.
  2. Web site: Cryptocarya grandis . Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants . 17 July 2024.
  3. Web site: Cryptocarya grandis . Australian Plant Name Index . 17 July 2024.