Species profile—Apatophyllum olsenii
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Celastraceae → Apatophyllum olsenii
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Celastraceae
- Scientific name
- Apatophyllum olsenii McGill.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 11115
- Alternate name(s)
- Many Peaks apatophyllum
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Endangered
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC) status
- Vulnerable
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Confidential
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Short Notes
- BRI 147586
- Description
- Apatophyllum olsenii is a shrub to 1m tall with hairless branchlets. The leaves may or may not have a short stalk. Leaves are linear, 8-22mm long and 0.7-1.2mm wide. The flowers are solitary with 5 overlapping petals are triangular in shape and 0.9-1mm long. The fruit is inversely egg-shaped, a 1 or 2-seeded slightly compressed capsule, 7-7.5mm long and 2.5-4.5mm wide. The seeds are cylindrical, 4.5mm long, 2mm wide and dark purplish-brown. (Jessup 1984)
- Map
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- Distribution
- Apatophyllum olsenii is only known to occur in the Many Peaks Range, south of Gladstone, in central-eastern Queensland. (Herbrecs 2008)
- Distributional limits
- -24.1280555, 151.2791666
-24.1661112, 151.3069445 - Range derivation
- Range derived from extent of the taxon's verified records
- Habitat
- Apatophyllum olsenii grows on granite ridges in open forest habitat.
- Notes
- Contributors: Ailsa Holland, Mellisa Mayhew 27/01/2009
- References
- Herbrecs (2008). Apatophyllum olsenii, in BriMapper version 2.12. Queensland Herbarium. Accessed 23/09/2008.
Jessup, L.W. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984). Flora of Australia, volume 22: 165. - Profile author
- Ailsa Holland (27/01/2009)
Other resources
- Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT)
- The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH)
- Atlas of Living Australia
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=11115.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
