| Ochrosia ackeringae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Genus: | Ochrosia |
| Species: | O. ackeringae |
| Binomial name | |
| Ochrosia ackeringae | |
Ochrosia ackeringae is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae that is found in the Malesian region. The specific epithet honours the collector of one of the syntypes. [1]
Ochrosia ackeringae is a small tree growing to 15 m in height, with a trunk diameter of up to 200 mm. The leaves are elliptic, entire, 60–150 mm long and 15–35 mm wide. The flowers are white and fragrant, with the corolla tube about 10 mm long. The fragrant yellow fruits are V-shaped, with the carpels united at the base, about 30 mm long and 10 mm wide. [1] [2]
The tree occurs throughout Malesia, including the Australian territory of Christmas Island, in coastal rainforest or strand vegetation. [1]
Hakea bakeriana is a shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the Central Coast of New South Wales. It is a dense shrub with sharply pointed, cylinder-shaped leaves and pink to crimson flowers in groups of between four and twelve. The fruit is a rough, wrinkled follicle which terminates in a short beak.
Buckinghamia is a genus of only two known species of trees, belonging to the plant family Proteaceae. They are endemic to the rainforests of the wet tropics region of north eastern Queensland, Australia. The ivory curl flower, B. celsissima, is the well known, popular and widely cultivated species in gardens and parks, in eastern and southern mainland Australia, and additionally as street trees north from about Brisbane. The second species, B. ferruginiflora, was only recently described in 1988.
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Hoya aldrichii , commonly known as the Christmas Island Waxvine is a species of flowering plant in the Apocynaceae or dogbane family. It is a vine that is endemic to Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the north-eastern Indian Ocean, where it is a common epiphyte in the shrublands of the island's coastal terraces. The specific epithet honours Captain Aldrich, commander of the survey vessel HMS Egeria, which visited Christmas Island in 1887.
Gossia fragrantissima, the sweet myrtle or small-leaved myrtle, is a shrub or small tree of eastern Australia. A plant with a ROTAP rating of 3EC-, endangered by extinction. Found in sub tropical rainforests near streams, from near Woodburn, New South Wales to Nambour in south eastern Queensland. It features fragrant flowers, hence the specific epithet fragrantissima. White flowers grow from October to February.
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