| Peripentadenia | |
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| Peripentadenia mearsii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Oxalidales |
| Family: | Elaeocarpaceae |
| Genus: | Peripentadenia L.S.Sm. [1] [2] |
| Type species | |
| Peripentadenia mearsii | |
| Species | |
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Peripentadenia is a genus of two species of large trees from the family Elaeocarpaceae endemic to the rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Sometimes they have the common name quandong. [4] [7]
Botanists have formally described two species, both endemic to restricted areas of the Wet Tropics rainforests of northeastern Queensland. [2] [3] [4] [7] [8]
Both species have official recognition of at risk of extinction in the wild. [9]