Native Gardenia

Whilst down doing some watering of some freshly planted native grasses this morning I noticed this plant in flower:

I couldn't remember the name but Anne ID it when I showed it to her.

Common name: Native Gardenia

Binomial mane: Atractocarpus fitzalanii

It used to be known as Randia fitzlanii  and seems to have been

first described by the famous early botanist Ferdinand Von Mueller.

In 1860 he published an "Essay on the plants collected by Mr Eugene Fitzalan during Lieut Smith's expedition to the estuary of the Burdekin"

and described this plant which he called Gardenia fitzalani  with a sub-name of Randi fitzalani. He recorded it as having been found at Cape Upstart, Magnetical Island and Halifax bay.

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044106365810;seq=14;view=1up;num=12

It looks like it was reclassified in 1999 as Atractocarpus with Randia being restricted to similar African plants

http://www.publish.csiro.au/?paper=SB98001

It quite an attractive small tree (thus far) on our property.

Tom