Английская Википедия:Elaeocarpus coorangooloo
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Elaeocarpus coorangooloo, commonly known as brown quandong or Coorangooloo quandong, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to north-east Queensland in Australia. It is a tree with elliptic leaves, white flowers with lobed petals, and spherical fruit.
Description
Elaeocarpus coorangooloo is a tree with elliptic leaves about Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide with wavy edges. Old leaves turn red before falling. The flowers have sepals less than Шаблон:Cvt long and petals Шаблон:Cvt long with thin lobes at the tip, and there are between fifteen and twenty stamens. The fruit is a more or less spherical drupe about Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide.[1]
Taxonomy
Elaeocarpus coorangooloo was first formally described in 1917 by John Frederick Bailey and Cyril Tenison White in the Botany Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, Queensland, from material collected by H.W. Mocatta in the Atherton district.[2]
Distribution and habitat
Elaeocarpus coorangooloo is endemic to north-east Queensland in Australia, where it is only known from the Windsor Tableland and near Paluma, growing in dry rainforest at altitudes of Шаблон:Convert.[1]
Conservation status
Brown quandong is listed as 'near threatened' under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[3]
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