Sahulia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Sapotaceae |
Genus: | Sahulia Swenson (2020) [1] |
Species: | S. suboppositifolia |
Binomial name | |
Sahulia suboppositifolia (H.J.Lam) Swenson (2020) [2] | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Sahulia suboppositifolia is species of flowering plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is a tree endemic to New Guinea. [2] It is the sole species in genus Sahulia. [1]
Sahulia suboppostifolia can grow up to 30 meters tall. It is evergreen, hermaphroditic, and latex-producing. [3]
It is endemic to New Guinea and known only from near Lake Murray in Western Province of Papua New Guinea, and from Aroa and Koitaki (east of Port Moresby) in Central Province. It grows in lowland and hill tropical rain forest, from sea level to about 450 meters elevation. [3]
The genus name Sahulia refers to the Sahul Shelf between New Guinea and Australia. Phylogenetically the genus is sister to Amorphospermum, Niemeyera, Pycnandra , and Planchonella . [3]
The Sapotaceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to the order Ericales. The family includes about 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in around 65 genera. Their distribution is pantropical.
Nothofagus nuda is a species of plant in the family Nothofagaceae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Pleioluma balansana is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia.
Pleioluma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Sapotaceae. It includes 40 species of evergreen hermaphroditic or gynodioecious trees, reaching up to 25 meters tall.
Planchonella is a genus of flowering trees in the gutta-percha family, Sapotaceae. Named in honour of Jules Émile Planchon, it was described by Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre. It contains around 110 mainly tropical species, which range from Pakistan through Southeast Asia and New Guinea to northern and eastern Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. The genus is included in the larger genus Pouteria by some authorities, hence species such as Planchonella australis are also known as Pouteria australis.
Chrysophyllum imperiale is a tropical tree of the family Sapotaceae native to eastern South America. It is currently classified as an endangered species. Its fruits were very much appreciated by the first emperor of Brazil, Pedro I and his son Pedro II, who exported specimens of the tree as an offering to various botanical gardens around the world, including Sydney and Lisbon.
Planchonella maclayana is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. It grows up to 18 m (60 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of up to 25 cm (10 in). The fruits are roundish, up to 1.3 cm (1 in) long.
Van-royena is a genus of the plant family Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1963.
Planchonella rufocostata is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. As with other species in the same genus, it possesses stamens that are located below the tube orifice; a multi-seeded fruit, as well as foliaceous cotyledons embedded in endosperm.
Planchonella roseoloba is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. As with other species in the same genus, it possesses stamens that are located below the tube orifice; a multi-seeded fruit, as well as foliaceous cotyledons embedded in endosperm.
Planchonella povilana is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. As with other species in the same genus, it possesses stamens that are located below the tube orifice; a multi-seeded fruit, as well as foliaceous cotyledons embedded in endosperm.
Planchonella mandjeliana is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. As with other species in the same genus, it possesses stamens that are located below the tube orifice; a multi-seeded fruit, as well as foliaceous cotyledons embedded in endosperm.
Planchonella luteocostata is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. As with other plants in the same genus, it possesses stamens that are located below the tube orifice; a multi-seeded fruit, as well as foliaceous cotyledons embedded in endosperm.
Planchonella latihila is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. As with other plants in the same genus, it possesses stamens that are located below the tube orifice; a multi-seeded fruit, as well as foliaceous cotyledons embedded in endosperm.
Planchonella glauca is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. As with other species in the same genus it possesses stamens that are located below the tube orifice; a multi-seeded fruit, as well as foliaceous cotyledons embedded in endosperm.
Planchonella crenata is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. As with other species in the same genus, it possesses stamens that are located below the tube orifice; a multi-seeded fruit, as well as foliaceous cotyledons embedded in endosperm.
Heptapleurum angiense is a flowering plant in the family Araliaceae. It is a tree endemic to western New Guinea.
Heptapleurum stramineum is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae. It is a scrambling tree endemic to Papua New Guinea.
Palaquium galactoxylum, commonly known as Cairns pencil cedar, Daintree maple or red silkwood, is a species of very large tree in the family Sapotaceae which is endemic to rainforests of New Guinea and northern Australia. It can produce spectacularly large buttress roots.
Planchonella myrsinifolia is a tree in the plant family Sapotaceae. It is native to Australia, with subspecies myrsinifolia native to Queensland and New South Wales on the Australian mainland, and subspecies howeana is endemic to Lord Howe Island.