Angophora bakeri, commonly known as the narrow-leaved apple,
Description
Angophora bakeri is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a
lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous grey bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and
coppice regrowth have linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves that are more or less sessile, long, wide and arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are thin, glossy green, paler on the lower surface, linear to narrow lance-shaped, long, wide on a petiole long, and arranged in opposite pairs. The flower buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets in groups of three or seven on a peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are long and wide. There are five
up to long and the
are about long and wide. Flowering occurs from December to February and the flowers are white or creamy white. The fruit is an oval to cylindrical, pale brown or grey capsule long and wide with ribbed sides.
Taxonomy and naming
Angophora bakeri was first formally described in 1913 by Edwin Cuthbert Hall in the
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
The
Botanical name honours Richard Thomas Baker.
In 1986, G.J.Leach described two subspecies in the journal Telopea and the names have been accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
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Angophora bakeri subsp. bakeri
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Angophora bakeri subsp. crassifolia G.J.Leach
Distribution and habitat
Narrow-leaved apple grows in sandy soil over sandstone and is widespread and locally abundant from Port Stephens to Nowra and as far west as Katoomba. There is also a disjunct population, previously known as
Angophora exul, now a synonym of
A. bakeri subsp.
bakeri in the Gibraltar Range National Park.
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