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: Distribution and habitat. "Elaeocarpus largiflorens" grows in rainforest at altitudes up to in north-east and central-eastern Queensland. Subspecies "retinervis" is restricted to the Mount Spurgeon - Mount Lewis area. Conservation status. Both subspecies of "E. largiflorens" are listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government "Nature Conservation Act 1992".