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Cryptocarya latifolia; photograph (c) Mahomed Desai, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Mahomed Desai, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2021-06-15

Cryptocarya latifolia Sond.

Broad-leaved Wild-quince; Bastard Stinkwood; Broad-Leafed Quince; Broad-Leaved Laurel

Lauraceae · Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal

No habitat climate
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About the genus · Cryptocarya

Cryptocarya is a genus of about 360 species of flowering plants in the laurel family, Lauraceae. Most species are trees, occasionally shrubs, distributed through the Neotropical, Afrotropical, Indomalayan, and Australasian realms. Most plants in the genus Cryptocarya have leaves arranged alternately along the stems, small flowers with 6 tepals, stamens in 2 rows, the inner row alternating with staminodes, and the fruit is a drupe.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cryptocarya", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 59 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 59 of the 59 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-31.619, 29.524 · in the densest population, 50 records (85% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 59 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 49 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 19 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 59 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 59 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Mahomed Desai, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); JMK, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Cryptocarya 16 in the reference

Cryptocarya alba Cryptocarya alba Chilean Acorn Photo: CC BY, Matt BergerCryptocarya chinensis Cryptocarya chinensis Lauraceae Photo: CC BY, Yu-Chang ChenCryptocarya concinna Cryptocarya concinna Lauraceae Photo: CC0, author not stated Cryptocarya elliptifolia Lauraceae Cryptocarya erythroxylon Cryptocarya erythroxylon Pigeonberry-ash Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyCryptocarya foetida Cryptocarya foetida Stinking cryptocarya Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyCryptocarya glaucescens Cryptocarya glaucescens Bolly-laurel Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyCryptocarya laevigata Cryptocarya laevigata Glossy laurel Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyCryptocarya mackinnoniana Cryptocarya mackinnoniana Mackinnon's Laurel Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve FitzgeraldCryptocarya microneura Cryptocarya microneura Brown jack Photo: CC BY, Lucas ChristofidesCryptocarya obovata Cryptocarya obovata White-walnut Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyCryptocarya rigida Cryptocarya rigida Forest-maple Photo: CC BY, Bryce Watts-Parker all 17 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataiNaturalist

The record

Family
Lauraceae
Described by
Sond.
Native to
Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal
Wild records
59 in range · 49 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2259 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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