Kingdom Plantae Family Proteaceae Genus Hollandaea | Order Proteales Subfamily Grevilleoideae Rank Species | |
Hollandaea sayeriana, sometimes named Sayer's silky oak, is a species of Australian rainforest small trees, constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae.
They grow naturally only (endemic) in restricted areas of the rainforests of the Wet Tropics region of north eastern Queensland, in the region of Mounts Bellenden Ker, Bartle Frere and the eastern Atherton Tableland. They grow as understory trees beneath the canopy of lowlands to tablelands rainforests, up to about 800 m (2,600 ft) altitude.
As of January 2014 this species has the official, current, Qld government conservation status of "near threatened" species.
In 1886–87, German-Australian government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller formally scientifically described this species, named after his associate, botanical collector William A. Sayer.