Samadera bidwillii is a species of plant in the family Simaroubaceae. It is native to Queensland, Australia, and ranges from the top of Cape York Peninsula to Gympie, where it grows in rainforest and vine thickets. It has a conservation status of vulnerable. The species as currently described may consist of more than one taxa.
Description Samadera bidwillii is a shrub or small tree growing up to tall. The leaves are long and narrow, measuring up to long by wide, with numerous lateral veins on either side of the midvein. They are glossy dark green above, yellowish green and finely hairy below. Flowers occur in clusters, on short pedicels (stalks) about long. They have four or five petals about long. The fruit is a cluster of up to four single-seeded measuring about long.
Distribution and habitat It grows in drier rainforests and vine thickets, and occurs along much of the east coast of Queensland, from the top of Cape York Peninsula to Gympie in the southeast. There are a number of disjunct populations, with the main groups being near Cape York, Rockhampton and Maryborough, and with other more isolated occurrences in between these groups.
Taxonomy This species was first described as Hyptiandra bidwillii in 1862, and transferred to Samadera bidwillii in 1896. Specimens collected in New South Wales were previously included under this name but are now treated as "Quassia sp. Moonee Creek (J.King s.n. Nov. 1949)". It is thought that the species as currently recognised needs review and possibly splitting into additional taxa.
Conservation status It has been given a conservation status of vulnerable in the Queensland government's WildNet database. An explanation of the assessment is not provided in the public database.
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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