Elaeocarpus grahamii
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, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are borne in groups of fifteen to thirty on  a thin rachis long, each flower on a thin pedicel long. The flowers have five sepals about long and wide. The five petals are oblong long and wide, the tip with between fourteen and eighteen linear lobes 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 long and wide. 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. The specific epithet ("grahamii") honours von  Mueller's friend, George Graham. Distribution and habitat. "Elaeocarpus grahamii" grows in rainforest in coastal lowland at altitudes between . It is restricted to the area between Cape Tribulation and Mission Beach. Conservation status. This quandong is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government "Nature Conservation Act 1992".