Common name: Casearia
Casearia multinervosa C.T.White & Sleumer APNI* 
Description: Tall shrub or small tree, glabrous, branches with many whitish lenticels; branchlets often zigzag.
Leaves elliptic to obovate, mostly 5–10 cm long, 2–4.5 cm wide, margins entire; secondary veins mostly 8–11 pairs; petiole 4–8 mm long.
Flowers in clusters of up to 6; pedicels c. 3 mm long. Sepals and petals 1–3 mm long. Stamens and staminodes usually 8.
Capsule c. 8 mm long, yellow or orange.
Distribution and occurrence: north from Mount Pikapene, west of Casino. Subcanopy tree in dry rainforest in the drier coastal ranges, often with the Hoop Pine, Araucaria cunninghamii.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Casearia was previously placed in the now synonymised family Flacourtiaceae. Casearia esculenta Roxb. has sometimes been misapplied to C. multinervosa C.T.White & Sleumer.
Text by G.J. Harden, Flora of New South Wales Vol. 1: 430-432 (1990), in Flacourtiaceae
Taxon concept: Australian Plant Census (accessed May 2017)
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