Notelaea microcarpa

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Phylogeny & links to associated information

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Plant  information

Common name:                Velvet Mock Olive

Conservation status:  . . .

Etymology:   

• New Latin, from not- + Greek elaia olive tree 

• Epithet from the Greek micro (small) and carpus (a fruit)

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Habit:        

• A bush or small crooked tree from the olive family

• It may grow to 10 m tall

Habitat:   

•  Under-storey of eucalyptus woodland

• At an altitude of between 500 and 700 m above sea level

Distribution:                  

• Eastern Australia

• North of the Hunter Region to Queensland

• Often on rocky sites, associated with the White Box

• Sites include Oxley Wild Rivers National Park and Chaelundi National Park

Additional notes:     

• Two varieties are recognised; 

  • var. microcarpa, the velvet mock olive

  • var. velutina known as the gorge mock olive

• The gorge mock olive is often found in the drier fire free gully rainforests, in the north of NSW

• This plant first appeared in the scientific literature in 1810, in the Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae, authored by the prolific Scottish botanist, Robert Brown

Sources of information:

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