Английская Википедия:Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus

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Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to north-east Queensland. It is a small to medium-sized tree, sometimes with buttress roots at the base of the trunk, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, flowers with five white petals, and dark bluish-grey fruit.

Description

Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus is a tree that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert, sometimes with buttress roots at the base of the trunk. Its young leaves and shoots are densely covered with rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are elliptic 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 borne in groups of up to about ten on a rachis Шаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long. The flowers are densely covered with woolly reddish brown hairs. The five sepals are Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide , the five petals thick, about Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide, sometimes with about three indistinct teeth on the tip, and there are forty stamens. Flowering mainly occurs in January and the fruit is a more or less spherical or oval, dark bluish-grey drupe about Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide, present from July to October.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus was first formally described in 1933 by Cyril Tenison White in Contributions from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University from material collected in on Mount Bellenden Ker.[3][4]

Distribution and habitat

Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus grows in rainforest at altitudes between Шаблон:Cvt. It is restricted to the area between Cedar Bay National Park and Hinchinbrook Island.[2]

Conservation status

This quandong is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[5]

Use in horticulture

This small, slow-growing tree features rusty-coloured new growth.[2]

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