Acronychia eungellensis, commonly known as Eungella aspen,[1] is a species of small rainforest tree that is endemic to a restricted area in east-central Queensland. It has simple, elliptic leaves on cylindrical stems, flowers in small groups in leaf axils, and fleshy fruit that is elliptic to egg-shaped in outline.
Acronychia eungellensis is a tree that typically grows to a height of and has more or less cylindrical stems. The leaves are simple, glabrous and elliptical, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in small to medium-sized groups long, each flower on a pedicel long. The four sepals are wide, the four petals long and the eight stamens alternate in length. Flowering occurs in October and the fruit is a fleshy drupe about long and egg-shaped to elliptical in outline.[2] [3] [4]
Acronychia eungellensis was first formally described in 1982 by Thomas Gordon Hartley and Bernard Hyland in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens collected in the Eungella National Park.[5]
This tree grows in rainforest but is restricted to the Eungella National Park and nearby private land at an altitude of about in central-eastern Queensland.
Eungella aspen is classified as "near threatened" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.