Endiandra phaeocarpa is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae, first described in 1989. It is a large rainforest tree native to northeast Queensland, Australia, and has a conservation status of least concern.
Description Endiandra phaeocarpa is a large rainforest tree that can reach up to tall with a trunk up diameter. Larger trees may produce buttresses. The young twigs are fluted and finely hairy when young. Leaves are glossy green and are generally about long and wide. The midrib is flush with or sunken in the upper surface and there are between 6 and 10 pairs of secondary veins branching from it. The petiole averages about long and domatia are absent.
Inflorescences emerge from from the or from the twigs beneath the leaves. The cream or yellowish flowers are lightly scented. They have six tepals in two whorls, each about long.
The fruit is a brown drupe with a felt-like surface, measuring up to long and wide. It contains a single brown seed up to long and wide.
Distribution It occurs in upland rainforest between above sea level, and is restricted to the area from Cape Tribulation to Mount Lewis National Park. It grows on soils derived from granite.
Taxonomy The species was first described in 1989 by Australian botanist Bernard Hyland, in his 367-page revision of the Lauraceae family in Australia.
Conservation This species is listed as least concern in the Queensland Government's WildNet database. , it has not been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
References
External links
Map of herbarium collections of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium Observations of this species on iNaturalist