4 
into a subulate, sometimes curved point, c. 
2 mm long and 0.75 mm wide at base, 0-4 
reddish globular glands may be present on the 
connective. Ovary globose to conical tapering 
into the style, c. 1 mm diameter; glands 
globular to shortly lineate, dark red to black; 
style 1.5-2 mm long, glands usually sparse; 
stigma punctiform. Ovules multiseriate, 9-14 
embedded in the placenta. Fruit globular, 5- 
7(—10) mm diameter, black at maturity, glands 
globular to shortly lineate, dark red to black, 
style persistent to 2 mm long. Seed globular, 
c. 4 mm long and 4 mm diameter. Fig. 1. 
Additional selected specimens (from c. 21 examined): 
Queensland. Moreton District: Lyrebird Ridge Road, 
Springbrook, Nov 2000, Bean 16995 (BRI, MEL); near 
Lyrebird Ridge Road, Springbrook, Dec 1990, Bird & 
Tucker s.n. (BRI [AQ502600], CANB [CBG]); Lyrebird 
Ridge Road Pottery, Springbrook, Dec 1990, Forster 
PIF7703 (BRI, NSW); Tomewin on Queensland side of 
Queensland/New South Wales border, Sep 1984, Jones 
s.n. (BRI[AQ440726J). New South Wales. North Coast: 
Tweed River, May 1901, Campbell 105 (NSW); Couchy 
Creek below Sphinx Lookout, south side of Springbrook 
plateau. May 1977, Floyd 353 (NSW); on NSW/QLD 
border south of Mt Cougal, Aug 1986, Floyd AGF2148 
(BRI, NSW); e. 1 km along QLD-NSW border track 
from Numinbah gate, Nov 1982, Guymer 1810 & Jessup 
(BISH, BRI, CANB, L, NSW). 
Distribution and habitat : In the late 19 th 
Century and early 20 th Century collections 
of Ardisia bakeri were made in rainforest 
along the gullies associated with the Tweed 
River. However, no recent collections have 
been made in these areas. Extant populations 
appear to be restricted to the Springbrook 
Plateau (28°12'S, 153°18'E) and associated 
areas of the McPherson Range (Map 1). It is 
locally common in complex or notophyll vine 
forests at altitudes up to 1000 m. Soils are 
chiefly basaltic in origin. Conservation status 
is listed as Rare in both Queensland and New 
South Wales. 
Phenology : The main flowering period is 
from September to November; fruits have 
been collected from December to May. 
Notes : This species is readily identified by the 
2-ranked and petiolate leaves. It is the only 
species examined where the median region 
of the adaxial surface of the corolla lobes is 
thickened and papillate. 
Austrobaileya 8(1): 1-23(2009) 
White (1942) renamed this species on 
discovery that Baker’s name was invalid. 
Although at the time he stated “comb.nov.” 
basing his new name on Baker’s invalidly 
named species, the name has been treated as 
a nomen novum and this was undoubtedly the 
intention at the time. 
Etymology : Named after R.T. Baker (1854— 
1941) an economic botanist, who became 
curator of the Sydney Technological Museum 
and also a forestry lecturer at the University 
of Sydney. He was awarded the Mueller medal 
in 1921 and the Clarke Medal in 1922 for his 
contributions to chemotaxonomy particularly 
of the eucalypts. 
2. Ardisia brevipedata F.Muell., Fragm. 6:163 
(1868); Bladhia brevipedata (F.Muell.) F.Muell. 
Viet. Nat. 8: 16 (1891); Ardisia brevipedata var. 
brevipedata Domin, Biblioth. Bot. 89: 502 
(1928). Type: Queensland. North Kennedy 
District: Rockingham Bay, 16 October 1868, 
Dallachys.n. (lecto [herechosen]: MEL1612562; 
isolecto: K, MEL162563). 
Illustration : Cooper & Cooper (2004: 334). 
Shrub or small tree 1.5—3(—6) m tall; bark 
smooth; branches tend to be held at more than 
45° to the main stem, branchlets often with 
a slight zig-zag. Leaves alternate, petiolate; 
petiole 0.5-7(-10) mm long, reddish, weakly 
marginate, flat on adaxial surface. Lamina 
chartaceous, elliptic to obovate, 4.4-16.9 cm 
long, 1.1-4.7 cm wide, adaxial surface glossy 
green, abaxial surface paler, glabrous except 
for scattered scales; apex obtuse to acuminate, 
base cuneate, margins smooth, may be slightly 
recurved, midrib flat or slightly depressed on 
adaxial surface, raised on abaxial surface; 
lateral veins relatively inconspicuous, more 
than 20 per side of midrib; glands pellucid 
when fresh, appearing black when dry, 
from irregularly globular to lineate, with a 
length: breadth ratio up to 12:1. Inflorescence 
axillary, subumbellate to umbellate to 2 cm 
long; flowers 12-25 per inflorescence, if less 
then by abortion, peduncles 2-10 mm long, 
reddish; pedicels filiform, 5-12 mm long, 
reddish, glands globular to shortly lineate, 
dark red often appearing black; subtending 
bracts soon caducous, 1-2 mm long, 0.5-1 mm 
wide, glands dark. Flowers 5-merous rarely 6, 
