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Spiny Gardenia

Randia moorei

Spiny Gardenia
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0
Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Randia moorei, commonly known as the spiny gardenia, is a rare Australian shrub growing in the far north eastern areas of the state of New South Wales and adjacent areas in Queensland. The habitat is subtropical rainforest north of Lismore.

Randia moorei was described by George Bentham in his Flora Australiensis in 1867. It is one of many plants named in honour of Charles Moore. Unlike several other Australian species, it was not transferred to the genus Atractocarpus, and remains in the genus Randia, historically a wastebasket taxon for the time being. New South Wales botanist Gwen Harden classified it in the genus Xeromphis.

Other Randia plants

White indigoberry · Randia carlosiana · Randia longiloba · Randia nicaraguensis · Randia pleiomeris · Puerto Rico indigoberry · Indigoberry

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Randia moorei by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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