Turner, Ian M.;Utteridge, Timothy M. A.
Huberantha
Sign in to saveHuberantha is a genus of plants in the family Annonaceae and tribe Miliuseae. It is distributed in Australia, tropical Asia, East Africa and some Pacific islands. Tanawat Chaowasku named the genus "Huber's flowers" in honor of the German botanist Herbert Huber and to highlight its flowers as a distinguishing feature of the genus. A number of species have been moved here from the genus Polyalthia.
Species
Canary Beech
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMagnoliales
- FamilyAnnonaceae
General: Huberantha can be recognised by symmetrical leaf base
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 111
- With media
- 93
- Family
- Annonaceae
- Collections
- MEL, CAS, A, MO
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, India, Tanzania, New Caledonia
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Encyclopedic overview
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Huberantha is a genus of plants in the family Annonaceae and tribe Miliuseae. It is distributed in Australia, tropical Asia, East Africa and some Pacific islands. Tanawat Chaowasku named the genus "Huber's flowers" in honor of the German botanist Herbert Huber and to highlight its flowers as a distinguishing feature of the genus. A number of species have been moved here from the genus Polyalthia.
==Description== The leaf veins of Huberantha form an interconnected net-like pattern. Their flowers are axillary. They have a single ovule and seed per ovary. A portion of their ovules remain fused to the seed coat forming a flat raphe. Their seed coats form spine-like intrusions into their endosperm. A layer of the outer pollen wall, called the infratectum, has a granular appearance.
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