| Socket sassafras | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Laurales |
| Family: | Atherospermataceae |
| Genus: | Daphnandra |
| Species: | D. tenuipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Daphnandra tenuipes | |
Daphnandra tenuipes, commonly known as the socket sassafrass, or red-flowered socketwood, is a rainforest tree in eastern Australia. It grows on the more fertile basaltic and alluvial soils. It is found from near Boorganna Nature Reserve near Taree, New South Wales to just over the border into Queensland at Springbrook National Park. It is a small to medium-sized tree featuring red new shoots and red flowers.[1] It has dark green leaves, which are lanceolate or ovate, and measure 4–13 cm (1.5–5 in) in length and 1.5–3 cm (0.59–1.18 in) wide.[2]
Daphnandra tenuipes was first described by J.R. Perkins in 1901, and still bears its original name.[3]
- ^ Floyd, A. G. (2008). Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia (2nd, Revised ed.). Lismore, New South Wales: Terania Rainforest Publishing. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-958943-67-3. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
- ^ G.J. Harden. "New South Wales Flora Online: Daphnandra tenuipes". Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia.
- ^ "Daphnandra tenuipes J.R.Perkins". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.