Common name: Eumundi quandong, smooth-leaved quandong
Elaeocarpus eumundi F.M.Bailey APNI* Description: Medium-sized tree.
Leaves 1-foliolate, lamina obovate to oblanceolate, 6–20 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, ± glabrous; margins irregularly toothed, often only in the upper half, or ± entire; domatia absent, secondary veins 6–9 pairs; petiole 10–50 mm long.
Racemes ramiflorous, mostly 5–8 cm long; pedicels 4–7 mm long. Petals 10–12 mm long, with 12–15 linear lobes, cream. Stamens 24–30, anther awned.
Fruit ovoid, c. 15 mm long, blue.
Flowering: November–December
Distribution and occurrence: In riverine and warm-temperate rainforest, north from Whian Whian S.F., rare in N.S.W.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by C. Gardner & L. Murray Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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