Common Name
Boonah Palm Lily
Stronghold population
False
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Historical abundance
May have been more widespread before European settlement
Local distribution
Scattered in moist open forest and rainforest and riparian rainforest on sub-coastal metasediments and volcanics
General ecology
Slope or hill not specified
Habitat comment
Occurs near margins of rainforest
Threats
Land clearing for agriculture, and urban development, are the major threats to this species.
Management
Where ever possible field searches are required in an attempt to rediscover populations of this species in the field. Reservations of suitable populations should then be undertaken and the species established in botanic gardens.
Community type
Rainforest, Vine scrub, Vine forest, Closed forest, notophyll vine forest, mesophyll vine forest
Description
Herb/forb/Shrub to 3 m high; leaves 15-50 cm long, 3-5.5 cm wide; fruit 10-15 mm diam orange-red
Citations
Queensland Herbarium August 1999, Briggs and Leigh 1996, Stanley and Ross 1983-1989 3:64, Harden 4:50
