Common name: hairy walnut
Endiandra pubens Meisn. APNI*
Description: Small to medium-sized tree, often bushy; bark brown to light greyish, smooth or thinly scaly to corky; young growth with brown or fawn hairs.
Leaves mostly elliptic, usually 6–14 cm long, 2–5 cm wide (± obovate and to 10 cm wide on epicormic shoots), apex rounded or bluntly acuminate, upper surface glossy, lower surface rather dull and softly hairy with straight and crooked, erect hairs; secondary veins 4–7 pairs, reticulum areolate, relatively coarse with 2 levels of pattern obvious; petiole 5–15 mm long.
Panicles shorter than leaves. Flowers c. 2.5 mm long, rusty-hairy.
Fruit globose, 40–60 mm diam., green to deep red; ripe Oct.-Feb.
Distribution and occurrence: In subtropical rainforest on alluvium, often in valleys along streams; north from the Bellinger R.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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