Atherosperma moschatum, commonly known as black sassafras, Australian sassafras, southern sassafras, native sassafras or Tasmanian sassafras, is a flowering plant in the family Atherospermataceae and the only species in the genus Atherosperma. It is a shrub to conical tree and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has densely hairy young branchlets, flowers and the lower surface of the leaves. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, sometimes with toothed edges, the flowers perfumed and white to cream, and the fruit is an achene.
^"Atherosperma moschatum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
Atherosperma moschatum, commonly known as black sassafras, Australian sassafras, southern sassafras, native sassafras or Tasmanian sassafras, is a flowering...
Laurelia novae-zelandiae and Nemuaron. Atherosperma moschatum (Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales) Atherosperma moschatum subsp. integrifolium (New South...
dominated by angiosperms such as Nothofagus cunninghamii (myrtle beech), Atherosperma moschatum (sassafras), and Eucryphia lucida (leatherwood) as well as...
species of the genus Nemuaron. Its closest relative is the monotypic genus Atherosperma from Australia. Morat, P., T. Jaffré, F. Tronchet, J. Munzinger, Y. Pillon...
690 ft), where it was found in a cool temperate rainforest growing on Atherosperma moschatum. It is locally abundant at this location, where it usually...
with rainforest understory, with such species as southern sassafras (Atherosperma moschatum), celery-top pine (Phyllocladus aspleniifolius), leatherwood...
nuts and fruit, as well as flowers and new buds of southern sassafras (Atherosperma moschatum), mānuka (Leptospermum scoparium), shining tea-tree (Leptospermum...
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ha in New South Wales. Typical genera include Nothofagus, Eucryphia, Atherosperma, Athrotaxis, Dicksonia, and Tmesipteris. Predominant trees in Tasmania...
rainforest with other rainforest species including southern sassafras (Atherosperma moschatum), leatherwood (Eucryphia lucida), horizontal(Anodopetalum biglandulosum)...
which are dominated by myrtle (Nothofagus cunninghamii) and sassafras (Atherosperma moschatum) trees with mother shield ferns (Polystichum proliferum), and...
Nothofagus species, however the lowland rainforests can also be dominated by Atherosperma, Eucryphia, Phyllocladus and Anodopetalum in less fertile soils. Valleys...
communities which often contain dominant and co-dominant species such as Atherosperma moschatum, Phyllocladus aspleniifolius, Nothofagus spp., Eucryphia spp...
found on smooth bark of various hosts, such as Doryphora sassafras, Atherosperma moschatum, and species of Elaeocarpus and Pomaderris. The lichen thrives...
man-ferns, and other rainforest tree species including southern sassafras (Atherosperma moschatum), myrtle beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii) and celery-top pine...
Peumus, Monimia, Tambourissa, Hedycarya, Mollinedia, Kibara, Siparuna, Atherosperma, Laurelia, and Doryphora. In 1898, Janet Russell Perkins began a series...
found with other rainforest species such as Nothofagus cunninghamii, Atherosperma moschatum, and Eucryphia lucida, the vegetation type can be defined as...
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