Cryptocarya microneura, commonly known as murrogun, murrogun laurel or brown jack,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a rainforest tree with lance-shaped to elliptic leaves, the flowers cream-coloured and tube-shaped but not perfumed, and the fruit a spherical to elliptic black drupe.
Cryptocarya microneura, is a tree that typically grows to a height of, sometimes to, its stems not buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The leaves are green and more or less glaucous on the lower surface. The flowers are cream-coloured and arranged in panicles sometimes longer than the leaves, sometimes shorter than the leaves. The outer tepals are long, the inner tepals long. The outer anthers long and wide, the inner anthers long and wide. Flowering occurs from September to November, and the fruit is a spherical to elliptic black drupe long and wide.[2] [3] [4]
Cryptocarya microneura was first formally described in 1864 by Carl Meissner in de Candolle's Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.[5] [6] The specific epithet (microneura) neans 'small-nerved'.[7]
This species of Cryptocarya grows in rainforest and wet forest from sea level to an altitude of from Gympie in Queensland to Tuross Heads in New South Wales.
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