title: Daphnandra
text: # Daphnandra
  
  Daphnandra is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Atherospermataceae, or formerly Monimiaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia.
  
  There are six species, occurring in New South Wales and Queensland:
  
  * Daphnandra apatela Schodde Socket wood, yellow wood, canary socketwood, satin wood
  * Daphnandra johnsonii Schodde Illawarra socketwood
  * Daphnandra melasmena Schodde
  * Daphnandra micrantha (Tul.) Benth.
  * Daphnandra repandula (F.Muell.) F.Muell. Sassafras, grey sassafras, northern sassafras, northern yellow sassafras, scentless sassafras, yellow sassafras
  * Daphnandra tenuipes J.R.Perkins, Red-flowered socketwood, socket sassafras
  
  The generic name Daphnandra refers to a similarity of the anthers of the bay laurel. Greek daphne refers to the bay laurel, and andros from the Greek for man.
  
  