''Notelaea lloydii'', commonly known as Lloyd's olive, or Loyd's native olive, is a species of flowering plant in the family

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. It is a shrub with leathery, linear or slightly sickle-shaped leaves, pale yellow or cream-colored flowers with 4-lobed petals, 2

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. The fruit is a dark blue

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Description

''Notelaea lloydii'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has many branches. Its leaves are more or less glabrous, leathery, linear or slightly sickle-shaped, long and wide on a

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long. The edges of the leaves are slightly turned down and the veins are distinct on the upper surface. The flowers are pale-yellow or cream-coloured and arranged in clusters of 5 to 9, long in leaf axils. The

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s are long, the petals egg-shaped with 4 egg-shaped lobes long joined in pairs above the base of the stamens. The ovary is glabrous, long with the

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long and a pink, 2-lobed stigma. Flowering occurs from June to early August and the fruit is a spherical to oval drupe long and in diameter.

Taxonomy

''Notelaea lloydii'' was first formally described in 1987 in the journal

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, based on plant material he collected west of Kenmore in 1985. The specific eipthet (''lloydii'') honours "Mr Lloyd Bird of

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Distribution and habitat

Lloyd's olive is known from two populations near Beaudesert and near Laidley, and usually grows in open eucalypt forest, often near the edges of vine thickets.

Conservation status

''Notelaea lloydii'' is listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government ''

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q16986626 lloydii Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1987 Taxa named by Gordon P. Guymer