Buff quandong

(Peripentadenia mearsii)

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Description

Peripentadenia is a genus of two species known to science, of large trees found only (endemic) in the rainforests of north-eastern Queensland, Australia and constituting part of the plant family Elaeocarpaceae.Sometimes they have the common name quandong. Botanists have formally described two species, both found only (endemic) in restricted areas of the Wet Tropics rainforests of north eastern Queensland.Both species have official recognition of at risk of extinction in the wild.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Oxalidales
Family:Elaeocarpaceae
Genus:Peripentadenia
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