Nothofagus cunninghamii

Evergreen shrub or tree to 30 m high, frequently with adventitious shoots; trunk to 2.5 m diam.; young foliage orange-red; young stems hairy. Leaves ovate, trullate or triangular, firm, very shortly petiolate; apex rounded to acute; margins irregularly and bluntly toothed; base cuneate to truncate; lamina 10–25 mm long, 5–18 mm wide, gland-dotted and deep green above, paler beneath; stipules 2–4 mm long, membranous. Male inflorescence with 1–3 flowers; perianth 6-lobed, 2–3 mm long; stamens 8–12, filaments hairy. Female inflorescence ovoid, 2–4 mm long, with 3 flowers, surrounded by leathery, hairy involucre bearing recurving glandular scales. Cupule 6–7 mm long; nuts 5–6 mm long, usually 3 per cupule, the outer pair triquetrous, the central one biconvex. Flowers Nov.–Jan.