Английская Википедия:Elaeocarpus grahamii

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Leaves and fruit in the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden

Elaeocarpus grahamii 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 coppicing, with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, flowers with five petals that have a frilled tip, and oval blue fruit.

Description

Elaeocarpus grahamii is a small to medium-sized tree that often forms a coppice. The leaves are more or less grouped near the ends of the branchlets, elliptic to egg-shaped, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petiole Шаблон:Cvt long. The flowers are borne in groups of fifteen to thirty on a thin rachis Шаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a thin pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long. The flowers have five sepals about Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide. The five petals are oblong Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide, the tip with between fourteen and eighteen linear lobes Шаблон:Cvt long. There are about fifteen stamens and the ovary is glabrous. Flowering mainly occurs from October to November and the fruit is a blue oval drupe about Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Elaeocarpus grahamii was first formally described in 1876 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from material collected by Eugene Fitzalan near the Daintree River.[3] The specific epithet (grahamii) honours von Mueller's friend, George Graham.[4]

Distribution and habitat

Elaeocarpus grahamii grows in rainforest in coastal lowland at altitudes between Шаблон:Cvt. It is restricted to the area between Cape Tribulation and Mission Beach.[2]

Conservation status

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

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