| Steganthera | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Laurales |
| Family: | Monimiaceae |
| Genus: | Steganthera Perkins (1898) |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Steganthera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Monimiaceae. [1]
Its native range is Sulawesi and the Maluku Islands through Papuasia (New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Solomon Islands) to Queensland. [1]
28 species are accepted. [1]
The Monimiaceae is a family of flowering plants in the magnoliid order Laurales. It is closely related to the families Hernandiaceae and Lauraceae. It consists of shrubs, small trees, and a few lianas of the tropics and subtropics, mostly in the southern hemisphere. The largest center of diversity is New Guinea, with about 75 species. Lesser centres of diversity are Madagascar, Australia, and the neotropics. Africa has one species, Xymalos monospora, as does Southern Chile. Several species are distributed through Malesia and the southwest Pacific.
Calophyllum is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family Calophyllaceae. They are mainly distributed in Asia, with some species in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, and the Pacific Islands.
Kibara is a genus of plants in the family Monimiaceae. It includes 47 species native to Indochina, Malesia, and Papuasia.
Trimenia is a genus of plants in the family Trimeniaceae. It contains eight species which range from northeastern Australia and New Guinea to the South Pacific islands. It is the sole genus in family Trimeniaceae.
Polyosma is a genus of about 90 species of trees native to south-east Asia. They occur from China south through south-east Asia to the east coast of Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia.
Trochocarpa is a genus of about 16 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae native to Australia, New Guinea, Borneo and Malesia. Plants in the genus Trochocarpa are shrubs or small trees, the leaves with more or less parallel veins, flowers in small clusters, each with 5 sepals, petals joined to form a cylindrical or bell-shaped tube, and the fruit a more or less spherical drupe.
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.
Aceratium is a genus of about 20 species of trees and shrubs of eastern Malesia and Australasia from the family Elaeocarpaceae. In Australia they are commonly known as carabeens. They grow naturally in rainforests, as large shrubs to understorey trees and large trees.
Palmeria is a genus of about 17 species of flowering plants in the family Monimiaceae mostly native to Australia and New Guinea. One species is also native to Sulawesi and the Bismarck Archipelago. Plants in the genus Palmeria are woody climbers or climbing shrubs with usually 7 to 15 flowers, the flowers either male or female.
Octamyrtus is a group of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae described as a genus in 1922. It is native to New Guinea and to the nearby Indonesian Province of Maluku.
Discocalyx is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Primulaceae.
Dimorphanthera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae.
Sericolea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Elaeocarpaceae.
Dryadodaphne is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Atherospermataceae.
Kairoa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Monimiaceae.
Leptecophylla mariannensis is a plant in the Ericaceae family and is only known to exist on the tiny island of Alamagan in the Mariana archipelago.