Eucryphia moorei | |
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Pinkwood at Gulaga Mountain summit | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Oxalidales |
Family: | Cunoniaceae |
Genus: | Eucryphia |
Species: | E. moorei
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Binomial name | |
Eucryphia moorei F.Muell.
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Eucryphia moorei, commonly known as pinkwood, plumwood, or eastern leatherwood is a tree found in southeastern New South Wales, Australia. [1] [2] It also occurs just over the border at the Howe Range in Victoria. Pinkwood is the dominant tree species of cool- temperate rainforests of southeastern NSW. [1] Young plants often grow as hemiepiphytes.
Eucryphia moorei can grow to 30 metres in height. [1] Leaves are pinnate, mostly 5–15 cm long, with usually 5–13 leaflets but they are often reduced to 3 on flowering branches. Leaflets are oblong, 1–7 cm long, mostly 5–15 mm wide, margins are entire, lamina is leathery, upper surface is dark green and ± glabrous, lower surface is white- tomentose; petiole is 10–30 mm long; lateral leaflets are sessile.