Pittosporum oreillyanum

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• A shrub to small tree, up to 5 m tall

Habitat:   

• This spiny plant may be seen growing in high altitude regions on the Mount Warning caldera

• Often covered in hanging mosses and liverworts

Distribution:                  

• Found in the border regions between the states of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia

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• Taxonomy

  • First collected by botanical science by Cyril Tenison White in 1929

  • The type location is "Mount Hobwee, Lamington National Park, near the New South Wales–Queensland border, altitude 4000 feet"

  •  This plant first appeared in scientific literature in 1936 in the "Contributions to the Queensland Flora, No. 5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland"

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittosporum_oreillyanum (2023)