The Small-leaved Hazelwood is a tall shrub or small tree that grows to 7 m tall. The bark is smooth and dark-brown, with vertical fissures. The buds and branchlets are finely hairy. The leaves are thin, 2.5-7 cm long, 0.7-2 cm wide, lance-shaped and have a fine tip. The leaf margins are toothed, with 4-8 pairs of irregular teeth. Small cream flowers are clustered in racemes, and grow to red, fleshy and oval-shaped fruits.
Small-leaved Hazelwood |
Symplocos baeuerlenii
Status: Vulnerable on the EPBC Act list
Shrubby Hazelwood
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Australian Government, Listing Advices, Symplocos baeuerlenii
Threats Known The main identified threats to this species are timber harvesting activities inappropriate fire regimes and clearing of warm temperate rainforest for agriculture and other development (DECC; 2005).
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Australian Government, Conservation Advice, Symplocos baeuerlenii
Threats The main identified threats to Small leaved Hazelwood are localised extinction due to small populations timber harvesting activities inappropriate fire regimes and clearing of warm temperate rainforest for agriculture and other development (DECC; 2005a).
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