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Saurauia andreana
Saurauia andreana, commonly known as Andre's saurauia, is a plant in the family Actinidiaceae found only in the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, Australia.
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Description
It is a shrub or small tree reaching up to 9 m (30 ft) in height with soft wood and pithy stems. Leaves grow to 26 cm (10 in) long by 8.5 cm (3.3 in) wide and their margins (edges) have numerous small teeth. They are held on petioles about 15 mm (0.59 in) long, and are obovate in shape. Flowers are white and produced in a 3—5 flowered cyme in the leaf axils. They have five petals about 14 mm (0.55 in) long. The fruit is, in botanical terms, a berry, white or faintly purple, measuring up to 15 mm (0.59 in) wide and long, and containing numerous small seeds.
Range & habitat
Andre's saurauia is found most commonly in lowland rainforest alongside watercourses, in coastal Queensland from about Cooktown south to about Cardwell. The altitudinal range is from sea level to about 1,000 m (3,300 ft).
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 850995.