Endiandra bessaphila, commonly known as gully walnut or blush walnut, is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae native to northeast Queensland, Australia. It is a rainforest tree, first described in 1989. It has a conservation status of least concern.
Description Endiandra bessaphila is a tree that may grow to about in height and diameter. The trunk is often buttressed and the bark is nondescript. The leaves are generally about long and wide and have 6–11 pairs of lateral veins. The underside is green but in rare cases may be ; there are in the junctions of the lateral veins with the mid vein.
The inflorescence is a panicle emerging from the . Flowers are green to cream and faintly scented; they have six tepals about long. The fruit is a glossy black ellipsoid drupe up to long and wide containing a single brown seed.
Distribution This species is widespread in rainforest from the area around Rossville to Mount Elliot near Townsville. It grows on a variety of soils, frequently in gullies, at altitudes from to .
Conservation , this species has been assessed to be of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and by the Queensland Government in its Wildnet database.
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Map of herbarium collections of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium Observations of this species on iNaturalist Images of this species on Flickriver.com