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Lunasia
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderSapindales
- FamilyRutaceae
Native toBismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Sulawesi, Sumatera
General: . Lunasia could be mistaken for Euphorbiaceae and can
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 51
- With media
- 34
- Family
- Rutaceae
- Collections
- BRIT, MEL, BPBM
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Indonesia
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Distribution and habitat
- Uses
- References
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Lunasia amara is the only species of flowering plant in the genus Lunasia of the family Rutaceae, and is native to Malesia, New Guinea, and Queensland. It is a dioecious shrub with simple leaves and head-like clusters of small flowers, the female flowers with larger petals than the male flowers. The fruit has up to 3 follicles joined at the base, each containing a single seed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lunasia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.