Hedycarya angustifolia

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Laurales > Monimiaceae  > Hedycarya angustifolia

Other links:     https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/0890ec29-a70c-46eb-8ef9-80a7e04e6ba4

Plant  information

Common name:        Austral Mulberry

Conservation status: unkown

Etymology:   

• Hedycarya:         Sweet-nutted

•  Angustifolia:  Narrow-leaved

Flowers:                  

• Flowers shortly hairy

• Flowers greenish with inflexed segments. Flowers Aug.–Dec

Fruit:                         

• Fruits c. 1 cm in diam., more or less globular, maturing yellow or orange

• The fruit is not edible to humans

Leaves:         

• Leaves elliptic, ovate to lanceolate, 5–10.5 cm long, 2.5–5.5 cm wide, dark green and shiny above, paler beneath; veins whitish or yellowish; margins coarsely toothed, each ending in a short, hard point; petioles 2–3 cm long. 

Stem & branches:    

Roots:         

Habit:        

• Shrubs or small trees, to 7 m high

• Young growth and flowers shortly hairy

Habitat:   

• A common species in and at the edge of rainforest or in the understorey of wet sclerophyll forest, often in moist, shaded gullies

Distribution:                  

•  VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, HFE, VAlp. Also Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. 

Additional notes:     

Sources of information:

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

•  https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/0890ec29-a70c-46eb-8ef9-80a7e04e6ba4 (2023)