Desmos polycarpus


Desmos polycarpus is a species of plants in the custard apple family Annonaceae found only in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is a vine with stems up to diameter, although it may appear as a shrub when young. The leaves are simple and alternate and measure up to long by wide. Flowers are about wide and greenish yellow, with 3 sepals and 6 petals in two whorls of 3. The fruit is an about wide and long. It is found in rainforest and gallery forest from about Lockhart River on Cape York Peninsula, to the Atherton Tableland southwest of Cairns. It was first described by Australian botanist Laurence W. Jessup in 2007.

Conservation

This species is listed as least concern under the Queensland Government's Nature Conservation Act., it has not been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.