Common name: Churnwood
Citronella moorei (F.Muell. ex Benth.) R.A.Howard APNI* 
Description: Large tree to 40 m high, trunk channelled with bark fawnish, finely fissured and corky; bark grey-brown; branchlets with appressed brownish hairs.
Leaves ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, 6–15 cm long, 3–7 cm wide, apex acuminate, base ± rounded, margins entire, lamina glabrous, upper surface glossy, lower surface paler; domatia pocket-like, usually confined to axils along primary veins; petiole 5–15 mm long.
Inflorescences 5–15 cm long. Flowers unisexual and plants dioecious. Sepals c. 2 mm long. Petals 4–5 mm long, white.
Drupe globose, 15–22 mm long, black; seed longitudinally grooved.
Flowering: May–September
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in subtropical and warm-temperate rainforest; chiefly in moist sheltered gullies and slopes in coastal districts and adjacent ranges north from Araluen.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, ?ST
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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