Elaeocarpus johnsonii F.Muell.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1893) Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 31: 322. Type: N Queensland (without precise location), .. Johnson (holotype BRI).

Quandong, Kuranda; Quandong, Johnson's; Johnson's Quandong; Kuranda Quandong

Often a poorly formed and multistemmed tree or with a number of stems from an old stump site.

Young shoots, leaf bearing twigs and petioles densely clothed in brown hairs. Leaf blades about 10-16 x 5.5-8 cm. Midrib hairy on the upper surface; leaf blades have teeth which are difficult to distinguish because of the numerous hairs.

Sepals about 14-17 mm long. Petals about 18 x 6 mm, divided at the apex into 2-3 fairly distinct lobes. Stamens about 30-35. Ovary hairy.

Fruits ovoid-ellipsoid to almost cylindrical, about 27-40 x 14-20 mm. Pericarp marked by conspicuous geniculate fibres when viewed in longitudinal section. Endocarp not discrete, surface +/- smooth (not rugose).

Features not available.

Endemic to NEQ, restricted to Thornton Peak and its surroundings, Mt Peiter Botte and the Atherton Tableland area adjacent to Mt Bartle Frere. Altitudinal range from 600-1300 m. Grows in well developed upland and mountain rain forest often on ridge tops.

Fallen fruit eaten by Cassowaries and seeds eaten by native rats. Cooper & Cooper (1994).