Endiandra cooperana 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 endangered.
Description Endiandra cooperana is a 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 5–7 pairs of lateral veins. The upperside is green, the underside is green and finely hairy when young, hairless when mature; there may be in the junctions of the lateral veins with the mid vein.
The inflorescence is a panicle emerging from the . Flowers are yellow and scented; they have six tepals up to long. The fruit is an ellipsoid drupe, yellow green to orange, about long and wide. It contains a single brown seed about long and wide.
Distribution It is restricted to the small area from Cape Tribulation to the Daintree River, and up to above sea level. It grows in well-developed rainforest.
Taxonomy The species was first described in 1989 by Australian botanist Bernard Hyland, in his 367-page revision of the Lauraceae family in Australia. The description was based on material collected by Bruce Gray from the Daintree lowlands in 1979.
Ecology The fruit of this species is eaten by cassowaries, parrots and mammals.
Conservation This species is listed as endangered in the Queensland Government's WildNet database. , the International Union for Conservation of Nature has not assessed it.
References
External links
Map of herbarium collections of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium Observations of this species on iNaturalist