Common Name
Smooth Scrub Turpentine
EPBC
Critically Endangered
Stronghold population
False
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Historical abundance
May have been more widespread before European settlement
Local distribution
Restricted to rainforest on sub-coastal metasediments and volcanics
Known location
Springbrook, Ausstinville, Mudgeeraba CA, Tallebudgera Valley, Currumbin Valley
General ecology
Slope or hill not specified
Habitat comment
Insufficient data
Threats
Forestry operations and 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 to maintain genetic diversity and species provenance and the species established in botanic gardens.
Community type
Rainforest, Vine scrub, Vine forest, Closed forest, notophyll vine forest, mesophyll vine forest
Description
Shrub/subShrub/undershrub to 5 m high. Flowers 4-5 mm long white, late spring to summer. Fruit; globose 6-9 mm diam. Late spring to summer
Citations
Queensland Herbarium August 1999, Briggs and Leigh 1996, Stanley and Ross 1983-1989 2:216, Harden 2:196, Jones p72
