Notelaea microcarpa
Velvet Mock Olive
Velvet Mock Olive
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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
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