Australian Tropical Rainforest - Online edition R.Br. Family: Eupomatiaceae Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814) Voyage to Terra Australis 2 : . Type: in woods and thickets in the colony of Port Jackson .. (given by A.T.Hotchkiss, J. Arnold Arbor. 36 (1955) 393 as Port Jackson, R. Brown). Common name: Copper Laurel; Grey Beech; Native Guava; Rose-bush; Bolwarra; Scented Laurel Stem Seldom grows beyond 30 cm dbh. Fine oak grain in the wood. blades about 11-20 x 3.5-7.5 cm. Lateral veins forming loops well inside the blade margin. Leafy twigs smooth and green, marked by small white longitudinally elongated lenticels. Very small and buds. © Stanley oil dots just visible with a lens. Breeden Flowers about 20-25 mm diam. numerous, about 70. Staminal filament base 2 or 3 times as wide as the apex. Carpels numerous, 13-68, closely crowded, +/- embedded in the broad flat . 2-11 per carpel. quite large, about 3-4 cm diam., sub-globose, truncate at the apex, resembling a large eucalypt capsule in outline, but lacking the valves. embedded in the fleshy receptacle. Flowers and buds. © CSIRO Seedlings Cotyledons elliptic to orbicular, about 10-12 mm long. At the tenth leaf stage: seedling glabrous, lateral veins form loops well inside the blade margin. germination time 25 to 46 days. Distribution and Ecology Occurs in CYP, NEQ, CEQ and southwards to Victoria. Altitudinal range in NEQ from near sea level to 1200 m. Grows as an understory in well developed rain forest and wet sclerophyll forest but Fruit, side views and cross favoured by disturbance. Also occurs in New Guinea. section. © W. T. Cooper Natural History & Notes Stem bark material of this species was active against some tumors. Collins et al. (1990). RFK Code 155

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