| Cryptocarya cocosoides | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Laurales |
| Family: | Lauraceae |
| Genus: | Cryptocarya |
| Species: | C. cocosoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Cryptocarya cocosoides B.Hyland | |
Cryptocarya cocosoides, commonly known as coconut laurel, is a tree in the laurel family and is endemic to north Queensland. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, the flowers creamy-green, perfumed and tube-shaped, and the fruit a spherical black to purple drupe.
Description
Cryptocarya cocosoides is a tree that typically grows to a height of 30 m (98 ft), its stems usually buttressed and its twigs densely covered with twisted brown hairs. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, 73–150 mm (2.9–5.9 in) long and 25–55 mm (0.98–2.17 in) wide on a petiole 8–17 mm (0.31–0.67 in) long. The flowers are arranged in panicles more or less longer than the leaves and are perfumed, the perianth 1.2–2.9 mm (0.047–0.114 in) long and 1.7–2 mm (0.067–0.079 in) wide and more or less glabrous. The outer tepals are 1.8–2.5 mm (0.071–0.098 in) long and 1.4–1.7 mm (0.055–0.067 in) wide and the inner tepals are 1.6–2.3 mm (0.063–0.091 in) long and 1.3–1.6 mm (0.051–0.063 in) wide. The outer anthers 0.6–0.9 mm (0.024–0.035 in) long and 0.6–0.8 mm (0.024–0.031 in) wide, the inner anthers 0.7–1.0 mm (0.028–0.039 in) long and 0.5–0.6 mm (0.020–0.024 in) wide and hairy. Flowering occurs from January to February, and the fruit is spherical or depressed spherical black to purple drupe 14–15 mm (0.55–0.59 in) long and 16–17 mm (0.63–0.67 in) wide.
Taxonomy
Cryptocarya cocosoides was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected by Bruce Gray in 1977.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Cryptocarya grows in mountain rainforest at altitudes between 750 and 1,150 m (2,460 and 3,770 ft) on soils derived from granite between the Tinaroo Hills the Lamb Range and Koombooloomba in North Queensland.
References
- "Cryptocarya cocosoides". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
- ^ Le Cussan, J.; Hyland, Bernard P.M. "Cryptocarya cocosoides". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
- ^ "Cryptocarya cocosoides". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
- "Cryptocarya cocosoides". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Cryptocarya cocosoides | |