Beilschmiedia oligandra, commonly known as dogwood, is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae. It is a rainforest tree native to the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, Australia, and first described in 1959. It has a conservation status of least-concern.
Description Beilschmiedia oligandra is a tree growing up to tall with a buttressed trunk. The leaves are elliptic to lanceolate, green above and below, and are up to long and wide.
Inflorescences are produced in the and are shorter than the leaves. The flowers have six pale green to cream tepals about long. The fruit is an almost spherical drupe, dark red to black, and measuring about long and wide. It contains a single large seed.
Distribution Dogwood is endemic to a small part of the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland. It grows in rainforest on various soil types, from the Bloomfield River north of Cape Tribulation to the Johnstone River west of Innisfail. The altitudinal range is from .
Taxonomy It was first described in 1959 by Australian botanist Lindsay Stuart Smith. The type specimen was collected by K.J. White in 1955 from Gadgarra in the eastern Atherton Tableland.
Conservation , this species has been assessed to be of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and by the Queensland Government under its Nature Conservation Act.
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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