Cryptocarya floydii

Cryptocarya floydii, commonly known as Glenugie laurel or gorge laurel is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a tree with lance-shaped leaves, pale green tube-shaped flowers, and spherical black drupes.

Description
Cryptocarya floydii is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to 15 m and a trunk dbh of 25 cm. The trunk is irregular, sometimes fluted, buttressed and multi-stemmed. The leaves are lance-shaped, mostly 30–110 mm long, 10–35 mm wide and leathery, the upper surface dark green and shiny, the lower surface dull green. The flowers are dull green and borne in panicles that are shorter than the leaves, the perianth tube 1.6 mm long and 1.7 mm wide. The tepals are 2.2 mm long and 1.1 mm wide, the outer anthers 0.7 mm long and 0.5 mm wide, the inner anthers 0.7 mm long and 0.4 mm wide. Flowering occurs between October and February and the fruit is a spherical black drupe, 10–15 mm long and 12–18 mm wide.

Taxonomy
Cryptocarya floydii was first formally described in 1979 by André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans in the journal Brunonia, from specimens collected on Glenugie Peak near Grafton in 1959.

Distribution and habitat
This species of Cryptocarya grows in drier rainforest, usually in rocky areas, at altitudes between 300 and 1050 m between the Bunya Mountains in southern Queensland and Wollomombi Falls in northern New South Wales.

Ecology
A thin layer of flesh over the relatively large seed would offer little nourishment for feeding birds. Alexander Floyd considers this fruit to be mimetic, as the fruit resembles more fleshy fruits such as the vine Tetrastigma nitens.