Endiandra grayi is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae native to northeast Queensland, Australia. It is a rainforest tree, first described in 1989, with a conservation status of vulnerable.
Description Endiandra grayi 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 6–9 pairs of lateral veins. The upperside is green, the underside is and covered in brownish hairs when young, hairless when mature. The midrib is sunken in the upper surface of the leaf blade. The petiole is about long, and domatia are absent.
The inflorescence is a panicle emerging from the and not extending further than the leaves. Flowers are yellow green inside and hairy brown on the outside. They are unscented and have six tepals about long. The fruit is an ellipsoid drupe, dark blue or black, glaucous, up to 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.
Ecology The fruit of E. grayi is eaten by cassowaries.
Conservation This species is listed as vulnerable 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