Eucryphia wilkiei

Eucryphia wilkiei is a species of rainforest shrub endemic to restricted areas of cloud forests on mountain tops in the Wet Tropics region of northeastern Queensland, Australia.^[1][3][4] As of November 2013^[update], botanists classify Eucryphia in the family Cunoniaceae.^[5]

Eucryphia wilkiei
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (NCA)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Oxalidales
Family:	Cunoniaceae
Genus:	Eucryphia
Species:	E. wilkiei
Binomial name
Eucryphia wilkiei B.Hyland[1][2]

Naturally, they grow 1 to 6 m (3 to 20 ft) tall and occur only within an altitude range of about 1,200 to 1,500 m (4,000 to 5,000 ft).^[3][4]

In Jan. 1970 Jack (John H.) Wilkie (1902–1997), orchid expert and botanical explorer of the Mount Bellenden Ker region, was the first European–Australian person to scientifically discover them.^[1] Bernie Hyland formally scientifically described the species name in 1997.^[1]

Eucryphia wilkiei’s, endemic, very restricted distribution has obtained the conservation status of "vulnerable", officially listed in the regulation current as of 27 September 2013^[update], of the Queensland government legislation, the Nature Conservation Act 1992.^[6]