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Wilkiea
Sign in to saveWilkiea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Monimiaceae, and is native to Australia and New Guinea. Plants in this genus are monoecious or sometimes dioecious trees and shrubs, the leaves with many fine oil dots, male and female flowers in cymes or panicles, and oval black drupes.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLaurales
- FamilyMonimiaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 82
- With media
- 44
- Family
- Monimiaceae
- Collections
- AM, QVMAG, US, MEL
- Recorded in
- Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Monimiaceae
- Image
- Wilkiea huegeliana Barrenjoey.JPG
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Wilkiea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Monimiaceae, and is native to Australia and New Guinea. Plants in this genus are monoecious or sometimes dioecious trees and shrubs, the leaves with many fine oil dots, male and female flowers in cymes or panicles, and oval black drupes.
==Description== Plants in the genus Wilkeia are monoecious or dioecious trees or shrubs with sometimes toothed, papery to leathery leaves with many fine oil dots. The flowers are borne in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets in cymes or panicles, usually with 3 to 9 flowers. Male flowers are more or less spherical, with 4 to 8 tepals usually with 4 to 8 stamens. Female flowers are flattened spherical, with minute tepals with many carpels with a short stigma. The fruit is an oval, black drupe about long.
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