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Denhamia silvestris (Lander & L.A.S.Johnson) M.P.Simmons
Family Celastraceae
Common name: Narrow-leaved Orangebark, Orange Bush, Orange Bark

Denhamia silvestris (Lander & L.A.S.Johnson) M.P.Simmons APNI*

Synonyms: Maytenus silvestris Lander & L.A.S.Johnson APNI*

Description: Shrub to 4.5 m high.

Leaves narrow-elliptic to lanceolate or oblanceolate, mostly 1–8 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, apex acuminate, mucronate or acute, base attenuate, margins toothed or entire, surfaces glabrous; petiole 1–2 mm long.

Flowers solitary, clustered or in short racemes; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Sepals 5. Petals 5, 1.5–2 mm long.

Capsule globose to obovoid, 3.5–8 mm long, orange, 2-valved; seeds 1–4, surrounded by an aril.


Habitat
Photo T.M. Tame

Fruit
Photo D. Hardin

Type
Specimen

Flowering: mostly October–December

Distribution and occurrence: north from Camden and the Illawarra region.

Grows in rainforest and moist eucalypt forest.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, NWS
AVH map***

Intergrades between this species and <D. bilocularis have been recorded from the NC & NT; these plants differ from D. silvestris in their broader leaves.

Previously included in the genus Maytenus (refer McKenna et al. 2011. Delimitation of the segregate genera of Maytenus s. l. (Celastraceae) based on morphological and molecular characters. Systematic Botany 36(4): 922-932).

Text by T. A. James (edited by B.J. Conn June 2014)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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