Endiandra collinsii is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae native to northeast Queensland, Australia. It is a rainforest tree, first described in 1989. It has a conservation status of least concern.
Description Endiandra collinsii is a small tree that may grow to about in height and diameter. The trunk is often buttressed and the bark is nondescript. The leaves are generally about long and wide and have 4–6 pairs of lateral veins. They are green on both sides but the underside in some cases may be ; there are often in the junctions of the lateral veins with the mid vein.
The inflorescence is a panicle emerging from the . Flowers are green to cream and have no scent; they have six tepals about long. The fruit is a glossy black ellipsoid drupe up to long and wide containing a single brown seed.
Distribution This species is found in three disjunct populations in Cape York Peninsula – the northernmost near Lockhart River, another near Coen and the southernmost near Cooktown. It grows in rainforest and monsoon forest on a variety of soils at altitudes from to .
Conservation , this species has been assessed to be of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and by the Queensland Government in its Wildnet database.
References
External links
Map of herbarium collections of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium