Peripentadenia

Peripentadenia
Peripentadenia mearsii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Oxalidales
Family: Elaeocarpaceae
Genus: Peripentadenia
L.S.Sm.[1][2]
Type species
Peripentadenia mearsii
(C.T.White) L.S.Sm.[1][2]
Species

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Peripentadenia is a genus of two species of large trees from the family Elaeocarpaceae endemic to the rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia.[2][3][4][5][6] Sometimes they have the common name quandong.[4][7]

Botanists have formally described two species, both endemic to restricted areas of the Wet Tropics rainforests of northeastern Queensland.[2][3][4][7][8]

Both species have official recognition of at risk of extinction in the wild.[9]

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