About Denhamia bilocularis (F.Muell.) M.P.Simmons
Denhamia bilocularis, commonly called orangebark, is a tree endemic to eastern Australia. It reaches up to 10 metres in height. Its leaves are elliptic, ovate or obovate in shape, with toothed edges, and measure 3 to 9 centimetres long by 1.3 to 3 centimetres wide. Within the species' native range, flowers grow in short racemes or clusters, and bloom between September and December. This species was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller, who was the Victorian Government Botanist, under the original name Celastrus bilocularis. It was moved to the genus Maytenus in 1942, and then to the genus Denhamia in 2011. Denhamia bilocularis grows in dry rainforest and eucalypt forest. It is found in a separate population near Atherton, Queensland, and also across a range from Biloela, Queensland south to Dorrigo, New South Wales.
