Dansiea elliptica

Dansiea elliptica is a species of rainforest tree which is endemic to Queensland, Australia. The species, which occurs within two highly disjunct centres of distribution, is primarily found in drier notophyll vine forests and semi evergreen vine thickets in the Wet Tropics of Queensland and Central Queensland. The species is listed as Near Threatened under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act (1992) and has a total area of occupancy of less than 40 square km. One of only two species in its genus along with Dansiea grandiflora, Dansiea elliptica was first described by N.B. Byrnes in Austrobaileya Vol.1 on page 385 in 1981. The genus name honours Sam Dansie (1927–2012), an Australian forester and plant collector....read more on Wikipedia.