Elaeocarpus johnsonii

Elaeocarpus johnsonii, commonly known as Kuranda quandong or Johnson's quandong, is species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to north-east Queensland. It is a small to medium-sized tree, often with several main stems, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, racemes of up to seven flowers, the petals with fringed lobes, and dark blue fruit.
Description.
"Elaeocarpus johnsonii" is a small to medium-sized tree typically growing to a height of , often with several buttressed trunks. Young branchlets are densely covered with woolly-brownish or velvety hairs. The leaves are mostly clustered at the ends of branchlets, hairy, elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in racemes long with up to seven flowers on robust pedicels long. The flowers have five narrow triangular sepals about and wide, densely hairy on the back. The five petals are about long and wide, the tips divided into two or three fringed lobes. There are between thirty and thirty-five stamens. Flowering occurs in September and the fruit is an dark blue drupe with a waxy bloom and long.
Taxonomy.
"Elaeocarpus johnsonii" was first formally described in 1893 by Ferdinand von Mueller in the "Journal of Botany, British and Foreign".
The authorship of "E. johnson" is attributed to "F.Muell. ex C.T.White" by Plants of the World Online because White noted that he had been unable to find the place of publication.
Distribution and habitat.
Kuranda quandong grows in rainforest at altitudes from and is restricted to Thornton Peak, Mount Pieter Botte and Mount Bartle Frere, and adjacent areas in north-east Queensland.
Ecology.
Cassowaries eat fallen fruit of "E. johnsonii" and native rats eats the seeds.
Conservation status.
This quandong is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government "Nature Conservation Act 1992".