Common name: Murrogun
Cryptocarya microneura Meisn. APNI* 
Description: Usually a small tree; young growth covered in straight, appressed, fawn hairs, eventually becoming ± glabrous.
Leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 6–12 cm long, 20–35 mm wide, apex bluntly acuminate, both surfaces glabrous, upper surface green and glossy, lower surface paler; midrib raised and rounded below, slightly raised above, whitish in fresh leaves, secondary veins curving unbranched towards the margin, reticulum equally distinct on both surfaces, finely areolate; petiole 4–8 mm long.
Panicles mostly shorter than leaves. Flowers ca 4 mm long, yellowish, pubescent.
Fruit ± globose, pointed, c. 12 mm long, black; ripe Dec.-July.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread, chiefly found in warm-temperate and dry rainforest north from Tuross Heads.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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