Gomphandra australiana, commonly known as buff beech, is a species of plant in the family Stemonuraceae. It is native to the Maluku Islands, New Guinea and the state of Queensland, Australia.
Description Gomphandra australiana is a small tree up to tall and rarely more than diameter at breast height. The leaves are simple (without lobes or divisions), arranged alternately on the twigs, and measure up to long and wide. They are glossy on both sides, dark green above and paler below, and they have 5–9 pairs of veins on either side of the midrib.
Flowers are produced on up to long. They are quite small—the petals are united into a tube about long. The fruit is an ellipsoidal drupe, salmon pink when ripe, about long and wide. It contains a single seed.
Distribution and habitat This species occurs in eastern Queensland from about Townsville to the top of Cape York Peninsula, and also occurs in New Guinea. It grows in tropical rainforest as an understory tree, at altitudes from sea level to about .
Conservation status It has been given the status of least concern by both the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the Queensland Government.
Gallery
References
External links
Map of herbarium collections of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium Observations of this species on iNaturalist Images of this species on Flickriver.com