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VicFlora Flora of Victoria

Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Magnoliales
Eupomatiaceae
Eupomatia
Sibling

Eupomatia laurina

R.Br. Bolwarra

Voy. Terra Austr. 2: 597, t.2 (1814)

Taxonomic status Accepted

Occurrence status Present

Origin Native

Degree of establishment Native

Threat status

FFG: Endangered (EN)

Tall, many-stemmed or small rather bushy tree to c. 6(–9) m high. Branchlets often drooping, brown or black. Leaves bright green, glossy on the upper surface, sometimes with a coppery tinge (particularly on new growth), elliptic to obovate 5–15.5 cm long, 2–5.8 cm wide; petiole c. 6 mm long. Flowers white to cream, 2–2.5 cm diam., strongly perfumed. Fruit mostly urn-shaped, 1.5–2 cm diam. Flowers Dec.–Feb.

GipP, EGL, EGU. Also Qld, NSW. New Guinea. Restricted to warm-temperate rainforest and moist places in more open forest, eastwards from about Nowa Nowa. A single record from Dandenong in 1901 is likely to be of cultivated origin.

Pollination is by beetles. Pulp of the ripe fruit is edible.

Source:

Foreman, D.B. (1996). Eupomatiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., ‍Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae‍, pp. 23–24. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

Updated by: Val Stajsic, 9 Jan. 2020

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