Common name: Green-leaved Rose Walnut
Endiandra muelleri subsp. muelleri Meisn. APNI* 
Description: Tree to 30 m high, shortly buttressed and often flanged, bark brown, often with loose, rounded plates; young growth hairy.
Leaves with length to breadth ratio between 2.5 and 3.5:1; broad-lanceolate to elliptic, usually 6–12 cm long, 3–5 cm wide, moderately glossy, brown or green when dried; midrib warty on lower surface, sometimes 3-veined from near base, reticulum finely and evenly areolate; small domatia sometimes present; petiole 5–10 mm long.
Panicles shorter than leaves. Flowers c. 2 mm long, yellowish, hairy.
Fruit ovoid, c. 20 mm long, black; ripe Apr.
Distribution and occurrence: In warm-temperate and subtropical rainforest on poorer soils and in littoral rainforest on sands, north from the Allyn R.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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