Saurauia andreana, commonly known as Andre's saurauia, is a plant in the family Actinidiaceae found only in the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, Australia.
Description It is a shrub or small tree reaching up to in height with soft wood and pithy stems. Leaves grow to long by wide and their margins (edges) have numerous small teeth. They are held on petioles about long, and are obovate in shape. Flowers are white and produced in a 3—5 flowered in the . They have five petals about long. The fruit is, in botanical terms, a berry, white or faintly purple, measuring up to wide and long, and containing numerous small seeds.
Distribution and habitat Andre's saurauia is found most commonly in lowland rainforest alongside watercourses, in coastal Queensland from about Cooktown south to about Cardwell. The altitudinal range is from sea level to about .
Conservation This species is listed as least concern under the Queensland Government's Nature Conservation Act. , it has not been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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View a map of herbarium collections of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium View observations of this species on iNaturalist View images of this species on Flickriver.com