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Dansiea elliptica is a rare rainforest tree endemic to Queensland, Australia, growing up to 35 m in dry vine forests and vine thickets. It is a wild species with no established horticultural care, so it is seldom grown outside its native range.
Dansiea elliptica is a species of rainforest tree which is endemic to Queensland, Australia. The species, which occurs within two highly disjunct centres of distribution, is primarily found in drier notophyll vine forests and semi evergreen vine thickets in the Wet Tropics of Queensland and Central Queensland. The species is listed as Near Threatened under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act (1992) and has a total area of occupancy of less than 40 square km.
One of only two species in its genus along with Dansiea grandiflora, Dansiea elliptica was first described by N.B. Byrnes in Austrobaileya Vol.1 on page 385 in 1981. The genus name honours Sam Dansie (1927–2012), an Australian forester and plant collector.
Dansiea elliptica occurs in lowland dry rainforests and vinethickets (notophyll vineforests, semi evergreen vinethickets) on soils derived from greywacke (in the southern populations) or rhyolite and basalt (northern populations). Species known to be associated with D. elliptica from a sample site in semi-evergreen vine thicket includes Flindersia australis and Casuarina cristata. In the Rundle Ranges, species such as Gossia bidwillii, Drypetes deplanchei, Planchonella cotinifolia, Pleiogynium timoriense and Terminalia porphyrocarpa occur in the same ecosystems as Dansiea elliptica. In notophyll-mesophyll rainforest in north east Queensland, associated species include a canopy of Polyscias elegans, Flindersia spp., Elaeocarpus eumundi, Synima, Cryptocarya mackinnoniana and Cryptocarya vulgaris growing on soils derived from rhyolite.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dansiea elliptica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
