Elaeocarpus largiflorens
Elaeocarpus largiflorens, commonly known as tropical quandong, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a medium-sized to large tree, sometimes with buttress roots at the base of the trunk, mostly elliptic leaves and reddish-brown flowers.
Description
Elaeocarpus largiflorens is a tree that typically grows to a height of, sometimes with buttress roots at the base of the trunk. Its young leaves and shoots are densely covered with short, reddish-brown hairs. The leaves are elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are borne in groups of up to about twenty on a rachis long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are densely covered with reddish-brown hairs. The five sepals are egg-shaped, long and wide, the five petals oblong, long and wide. Between sixty and seventy stamens are crowded around and obscuring the ovary. Flowering occurs from January to March and the fruit is an oval drupe long and wide, present from September to December.Taxonomy
Elaeocarpus largiflorens was first formally described in 1933 by Cyril Tenison White in Contributions from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University from material he collected near Malanda in 1923.In 1984, Mark James Elgar Coode described two subspecies in the journal Kew Bulletin and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Elaeocarpus largiflorens C.T.White subsp. largiflorens has its main leaf veins in an even curve;Elaeocarpus largiflorens subsp. retinervis B.Hyland & Coode has zig-zagged main leaf veins.