Eucryphia jinksii

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Rosids  >  Oxalidales > Cunoniaceae  >  Eucryphia  jinksii     

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Plant  information

Common name:               Springbrook Leatherwood  

Conservation status:  Endangered

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

• Flowers are cream with four petals and numerous stamens

• Beehives near other species of Eucryphia make a famous rich honey known as Leatherwood Honey this species has considerable potential for honey production

Fruit:                         

• Fruits are small brown capsules with multiple segments and small seeds

Leaves:         

•  Coppice and seedling leaves have 5-7 leaflets, while adult leaves have 1–3.

Stem & branches:   

• They grow naturally to 30m tall yet were discovered as a new species only in 1994 by David Jinks

• Trees have pale lichen covered bark typical of many species in the Warm Temperate Rainforests

• Often a ring of coppice shoots surrounds the base of an adult tree

Roots:         

Habit:        

• Tree

Habitat:   

• Rainforsts 

• It is known from a single creek catchment in Warm Temperate Rainforest on the Springbrook Plateau

• Another stand has been discovered growing not as trees but as a thicket of multi stemmed shrubs on a wind sheared clifftop also in the Springbrook Area

Distribution:                  

• A rare rainforest tree found in Queensland and NSW

•  Endemic, very restricted and threatened distribution

• It grows in NSW at Numinbah Nature Reserve, on the Mount Warning caldera

Additional notes:     

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucryphia_jinksii (2023)