Cryptocarya bellendenkerana

Cryptocarya bellendenkerana is a tree in the laurel family and is endemic to North Queensland. Its leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, the flowers creamy-green and tube-shaped, and the fruit a spherical black drupe.

Description

Cryptocarya bellendenkerana is a rainforest tree that typically grows to a height of, its stems sometimes buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in panicles shorter than the leaves and sometimes have an unpleasant odour. The tepals are long, the outer anthers long and wide, the inner anthers long and wide. Flowering mostly occurs from September to January, and the fruit is a spherical black drupe long and wide.

Taxonomy

Cryptocarya bellendenkerana was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland in Australian Systematic Botany, from specimens collected by Hyland collected in 1982.

Distribution and habitat

This species of Cryptocarya grows in mountain rainforest from south of Cooktown to Mount Bartle Frere in north Queensland, at altitudes between.