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Nothofagus moorei (F.Muell.) Krasser
Family Nothofagaceae
Common name: antarctic beech

Nothofagus moorei (F.Muell.) Krasser APNI*

Description: Evergreen tree to 50 m, often with massive trunk surrounded by basal coppice shoots.

Leaves 2-ranked, ± ovate, usually 3–10 cm long, margins toothed, glossy, ± glabrous, leathery; petiole 3–5 mm long; stipules 8–10 mm long, often reflexed, caducous.

Male flowers formed on the twig below, and maturing before, the female flowers. Male flowers of 16–40 stamens in a cup-shaped involucre, 5–10 mm diam.; shortly pedicellate. Female flowers ± sessile, 3 together and surrounded by an involucre of bracts; ovary 3-locular. Involucre 8–10 mm long and covered by bristly processes in fruit, opens in 4 valves; nuts small, 1 or 2 in each involucre.


Illustration
C.Wardrop

Flower
Photo L.L. Lee|Barbara Cariglino|L. Murray

Other photo
Photo L.L. Lee|Barbara Cariglino|L. Murray

Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: spring, but not every year.

Distribution and occurrence: Dominant species in cool-temperate rainforest up to 1550 m alt., from Barrington Tops to the McPherson Ra. The timber is of commercial value but is now rare or protected in National Parks.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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