Английская Википедия:Elaeocarpus carolinae

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Elaeocarpus carolinae is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to north-east Queensland. It is a tree with buttress roots at the base of the trunk, elliptic to oblong leaves with wavy-toothed edges, flowers with five white petals with lobed tips and spherical blue to purple fruit.

Description

Elaeocarpus carolinae is a tree that typically grows to a height or Шаблон:Convert with buttress roots at the base of the trunk. The leaves are grouped near the ends of the twigs, elliptic to oblong with between ten and twenty-five wavy teeth on the edges, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petiole Шаблон:Cvt long. The flowers are borne in groups of up to ten on a rachis Шаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a winged pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long. The flowers have five narrow egg-shaped sepals Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide. The five petals are white, narrow oblong, Шаблон:Cvt long and about Шаблон:Cvt wide with thin lobes at the tip, and there are fifteen or sixteen stamens. The fruit is a more or less spherical drupe about Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Elaeocarpus carolinae was first formally described in 1984 by Bernard Hyland and Mark James Elgar Coode in the Kew Bulletin from material collected in 1979.[1][3]

Distribution and habitat

Elaeocarpus carolinae is endemic to north-east Queensland, where it is only known from the Windsor Tableland growing in rainforest at altitudes of Шаблон:Convert.[1][2]

Conservation status

This quandong is listed as of 'least concern' under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[4]

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