''Elaeocarpus linsmithii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to north-east Queensland. It is a shrub with oblong to elliptic leaves, white or pale green flowers and oval fruit.

Description

''Elaeocarpus linsmithii'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of with a dbh of less than . The leaves are leathery, oblong to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in

raceme A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the s ...

s of six to thirteen on a rachis long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are white or pale green, long with five narrow oblong to lance-shaped sepals long, wide and densely covered with silky brown hairs on the outside. The five petals are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide and there are between twenty-eight and thirty-five

stamen The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filame ...

s. Flowering occurs from April to June and the fruit is a more or less oval

drupe In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pit'', ''stone'', or '' pyrena'') of hardened endocarp with a seed (''kernel'') ...

long and wide.

Taxonomy

''Elaeocarpus linsmithii'' was first formally described in 1984 by

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in the '' Kew Bulletin''. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''linsmithii'') honours Lindsay Stuart Smith.

Distribution and habitat

''Elaeocarpus linsmithii'' grows in rainforest at altitudes of in the

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- Mount Lewis area and near the summit of

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in north-eastern Queensland.

Conservation status

''Elaeocarpus linsmithii'' is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government '' Nature Conservation Act 1992''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15317605 linsmithii Oxalidales of Australia Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1984 Endemic flora of Australia