Brassiantha hedraiantheroides

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Brassiantha hedraiantheroides
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Celastrales
Family: Celastraceae
Genus: Brassiantha
Species:
B. hedraiantheroides
Binomial name
Brassiantha hedraiantheroides

Brassiantha hedraiantheroides is a species of Australian understory shrubs or small trees, constituting part of the plant family Celastraceae. [1] [2] In 2012 botanist Andrew J. Ford formally scientifically named and described them as the first recognised Australian species of the genus Brassiantha . [1] Previously several publications provided informal scientific descriptions of this species under the provisional names " Hedraianthera sp. Mossman (V.K.Moriarty 2557) Qld Herbarium" or "Hedraianthera sp. Mossman". [1] [3] [4] [5]

They are endemic to a restricted area of the wet tropics rainforests of north eastern Queensland, Australia. [4] They grow as understory shrubs or small trees in rainforests and sclerophyll forests from near sea level to about 600 m (2,000 ft) altitude. [4]

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References

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