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{{Short description|Species of tree}}
{{speciesbox
|image = Cryptocarya-foetida.JPG
|image_caption = Stinking laurel
|status = VU
|status_system = EPBC
|status_ref = <ref name="dcceew">{{cite web |title=Approved Conservation Advice for ''Cryptocarya foetida'' (Stinking Cryptocarya) |url=https://environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/species/pubs/11976-conservation-advice.pdf |publisher=Australian Government, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref>
|genus = Cryptocarya
|species = foetida
|authority = [[Richard Thomas Baker|R.T.Baker]]<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Cryptocarya foetida'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/88305 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref>
}}
[[File:Cryptocarya foetida.jpg|thumb|Fruit in the [[Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney]]]]

'''''Cryptocarya foetida''''', commonly known as '''stinking cryptocarya''' or '''stinking laurel''',<ref name="dcceew" /> is a species of flowering plant in the family [[Lauraceae]] and is [[endemic]] to eastern Australia. It is a small to medium-sized tree with egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, cream coloured, unpleasantly perfumed, tube-shaped flowers, and spherical black to purplish [[drupe]]s.

==Description==
''Cryptocarya foetida'' is a small or medium-sized tree that typically grows to a height of up to {{cvt|25|m}}, the stem not [[Buttress root|butressed]] with a trunk [[Diameter at breast height|dbh]] of {{cvt|25|cm}}. The leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic or oval, {{cvt|8–150|mm}} long and {{cvt|33–44|mm}} wide on a [[Petiole (botany)|petiole]] {{cvt|6–10|mm}} long. Both surfaces of the leaves are [[wikt:glabrous|glabrous]] with prominent veins, and the lower surface is paler. The flowers are arranged in dense [[panicle]]s that are shorter than the leaves, the [[perianth]] tube {{cvt|1.1–1.2|mm}} long and {{cvt|1.5–1.7|mm}} wide. The [[tepal]]s are {{cvt|1.7–1.9|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.8–0.9|mm}} wide, the outer [[Stamen#Morphology and terminology|anthers]] {{cvt|0.7–0.8|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.5–0.6|mm}} wide, the inner anthers {{cvt|0.8|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.4|mm}} wide. Flowering mainly occurs in February, and the fruit is a spherical black to purplish-black drupe, {{cvt|8–13|mm}} long and {{cvt|8–15|mm}} wide.<ref name="dcceew" /><ref name="FoA">{{cite web |last1=Le Cussan |first1=J. |last2=Hyland |first2=Bernard P.M. |title=''Cryptocarya foetida'' |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Cryptocarya%20foetida |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref><ref name="RBGS">{{cite web |last1=Harden |first1=Gwen J. |title=''Cryptocarya foetida'' |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cryptocarya~foetida |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref>

==Taxonomy==
''Cryptocarya foetida'' was first formally described in 1905 by [[Richard Thomas Baker]] in the ''[[Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales]]''.<ref name="APNI">{{cite web |title=''Cryptocarya foetida'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/508883|publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref><ref name="R.T.Baker">{{cite journal |last1=Baker |first1=Richard T. |title=On an undescribed Species of ''Cryptocarya'' from Eastern Australia. |journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales |date=1905 |volume=30 |pages=517–519 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30106#page/609/mode/1up |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref> The [[botanical name|specific epithet]] (''foetida'') is a [[Latin]] word meaning 'stinking' or 'evil-smelling.<ref name="Stearn">{{cite book |last1=Stearn |first1=William T. |title=Botanical Latin - History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary |date=1992 |publisher=Timber Press |location=Portland, Oregon |page=414}}</ref>

==Distribution and habitat==
Stinking cryptocarya occurs from east of [[Gympie]] in southern Queensland to [[Iluka, New South Wales|Iluka]] in northern New South Wales, where it grows in [[littoral]] [[rainforest]] on old sand dunes.<ref name="FoA" /><ref name="RBGS" />

==Conservation status==
This species of ''Cryptocarya'' is listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government ''[[Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999]]'' and the New South Wales Government ''[[Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (NSW)|Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016]]''. The main threats to the species are its small population size, clearing and fragmentation of habitat, and weed invasion.<ref name="dcceew" /><ref name="RBGS" />

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Image:Cryptocarya-foetida3Leaves.JPG|Leaves
Image:Cryptocarya-foetida2Flowers.JPG|Fowers and leaves
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* {{cite book |author-link=Alexander Floyd |first=A.G. |last=Floyd |title=Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia |publisher=Inkata Press |year=1989 |isbn=0-909605-57-2 }}

==External links==
*{{cite web |title=''Cryptocarya foetida'' R.T.Baker |work=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2908416}}

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[[Category:Flora of New South Wales]]
[[Category:Flora of Queensland]]
[[Category:Cryptocarya|foetida]]
[[Category:Laurales of Australia]]
[[Category:Trees of Australia]]
[[Category:Vulnerable biota of Queensland]]
[[Category:Vulnerable flora of Australia]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Richard Thomas Baker]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1905]]

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