Common name: Green-leaved Rose Walnut
Endiandra muelleri Meisn. APNI* Description: Tree to 30 m high, shortly buttressed and often flanged, bark brown, often with loose, rounded plates; young growth hairy.
Leaves with length to breadth ratio between 2.5 and 3.5:1; broad-lanceolate to elliptic, usually 6–12 cm long, 3–5 cm wide, moderately glossy, brown or green when dried; midrib warty on lower surface, sometimes 3-veined from near base, reticulum finely and evenly areolate; small domatia sometimes present; petiole 5–10 mm long.
Panicles shorter than leaves. Flowers c. 2 mm long, yellowish, hairy.
Fruit ovoid, c. 20 mm long, black; ripe Apr.
Distribution and occurrence: In warm-temperate and subtropical rainforest on poorer soils and in littoral rainforest on sands, north from the Allyn R.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept:
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| 1 | Twigs with hairs straight and appressed; perianth segments usually hairy on the outside. Branchlets and mature leaves (except on some veins on lower surface) ± glabrous. Domatia often present as pockets or as small hair tufts | subsp. muelleri |
| Twigs with straight and crooked, appressed and erect hairs; perianth segments glabrous on the outside. Branchlets and at least main veins on lower surface of leaves rusty-tomentose; lower surface of mature leaves distinctly hairy with straight and crooked hairs. Domatia usually absent | subsp. bracteata |
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