Common name: Brown Beech
Pennantia cunninghamii Miers APNI* 
Description: Tree to about 25 m high, with irregularly fluted trunk, bark dark grey to brown, often scaly; branchlets glabrous, often strongly zigzagged.
Leaves elliptic or oblong-ovate, 7–18 cm long, 4–8 cm wide, apex short-acuminate, margins entire or juveniles sometimes toothed, both surfaces glabrous and glossy, pit-like domatia prominent in forks of secondary veins; petiole 10–20 mm long.
Panicles terminal or in upper axils, 5–12 cm long. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, plants either with bisexual or male flowers. Sepals minute. Petals 3–4 mm long, white.
Drupe ellipsoid, 10–15 mm long, 7–9 mm diam., black.
Flowering: Chiefly summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread, especially in rocky gullies near watercourses; chiefly in the coastal ranges north from Clyde Mtn, inland to the Liverpool Ra. Grows in subtropical and warm-temperate rainforest.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G.J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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