Английская Википедия:Acronychia imperforata

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Acronychia imperforata, commonly known as Logan apple, Fraser Island apple, or green tree,[1] is a species of rainforest shrub or small tree that is endemic to north-eastern Australia. It has simple, elliptical to egg-shaped leaves, small groups of yellowish or creamy white flowers and fleshy spherical to oval fruit.

Description

Acronychia imperforata is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt. Its leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, simple, more or less glabrous and elliptical to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petiole Шаблон:Cvt long. The flowers are yellowish or creamy white and arranged in leaf axils in small cymes Шаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long. The four sepals are Шаблон:Cvt wide and the four petals Шаблон:Cvt long and there are eight stamens that alternate in length. Flowering occurs in most months and the fruit is a fleshy, yellowish, pear-shaped to more or less spherical drupe Шаблон:Cvt long containing seeds Шаблон:Cvt long.[1][2][3][4]

Taxonomy

Acronychia imperforata was first formally described in 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae.[5][6]

Distribution and habitat

Logan apple grows in rainforest in near-coastal areas between Somerset on Cape York in north-eastern Queensland and Seal Rocks in New South Wales.[1][3]

Conservation status

This acronychia is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[7]

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