Wilkiea hugeliana

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Veiny wilkiea
Wilkiea huegeliana Macquarie Pass NP.JPG
Wilkiea hugeliana at Macquarie Pass National Park
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Monimiaceae
Genus: Wilkiea
Species:
W. hugeliana
Binomial name
Wilkiea hugeliana
Synonyms [1]
  • Mollinedia huegelianaF.Muell. orth. var.
  • Mollinedia hugelianaTul.
  • Wilkiea calyptrocalyxF.Muell.
  • Wilkiea huegeliana S.W.L. Jacobs & J.Pickard
Fruiting Wilkiea hugeliana at Barrenjoey Wilkiea huegeliana Barrenjoey.JPG
Fruiting Wilkiea hugeliana at Barrenjoey

Wilkiea hugeliana, commonly known as veiny wilkiea, common wilkiea or tetra beech, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae , and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a tall shrub or small tree with egg-shaped, oblong to narrowly elliptic leaves, and male and female flowers on separate plants. Male flowers have 3 or 4 stamens and female flowers have 20 to 40 carpels, and the fruit is a blackish oval drupe with a yellow to orange receptacle.

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Description

Wilkiea hugeliana is a tall shrub or small tree, typically 1–8 m (3 ft 3 in – 26 ft 3 in) high with a dbh of up to 10 cm (3.9 in). [3] [4] Its leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, egg-shaped, oblong to narrowly elliptic, 60–150 mm (2.4–5.9 in) long and 10–80 mm (0.39–3.15 in) wide on a petiole 5–12 mm (0.20–0.47 in) long. The leaves are leathery, have a prominent midvein and toothed edges. [4] [3]

Male and female flowers are borne on separate plants, male flowers in leaf axils in groups of 7 to 9, 20–25 mm (0.79–0.98 in) long, each flower spherical, 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) in diameter on a pedicel 4–10 mm (0.16–0.39 in) long with 6 tepals and 3 or 4 stamens. Female flowers are borne on the ends of branchlets or in leaf axils in groups of 5 to 9, 25–30 mm (0.98–1.18 in) long, each flower more or less spherical, 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) in diameter on a pedicel 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long with 20 to 40 carpels. [3] Flowering occurs from September to February, [4] and the fruit is a glossy bluish-black or glossy black drupe with a pale yellow to orange receptacle. [3]

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1855 by Louis René Tulasne who gave it the name Mollinedia hugeliana in Annales des Sciences Naturelles . [5] [6] In 1868, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle transferred the species to Wilkiea as W. hugeliana in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis . [7] [8]

Distribution and habitat

The natural distribution is from Mount Dromedary (36° S) near Narooma in south eastern New South Wales to Maryborough (25° S) in south eastern Queensland. [4] Veiny wilkiea grows in rainforest on the coast and ranges up to 900 m (3,000 ft), [3] and has a preference for volcanic soils. [9]

Ecology

Wilkiea hugeliana is most likely pollinated by Thrips setipennis , a species of thrips. These insects have been found in both male and female flowers. [10] [11] [12] [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Wilkiea hugeliana". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  2. ↑ "Wilkiea hugeliana". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Whiffin, Trevor J.; Foreman, Donald B. "Wilkiea hugeliana". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Floyd, A.G. (1989). Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia. Inkata Press. p. 222. ISBN   0-909605-57-2.
  5. ↑ "Mollinedia hugeliana". APNI. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
  6. ↑ Tulasne, Edmond (1855). "Diagnosed Nonnullas e Monimiacearum". Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique. 4. 3: 45. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
  7. ↑ "Wilkiea hugeliana". APNI. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
  8. ↑ de Candolle, Alphonse P. (1868). "Monimiaceae". Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. 16 (2): 669. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
  9. ↑ Fairley A, Moore P (2000). Native Plants of the Sydney District:An Identification Guide (2nd ed.). Kenthurst, NSW: Kangaroo Press. p. 54. ISBN   0-7318-1031-7.
  10. ↑ Williams, G., Adams, P. & Mound, L.A. 2001. Thrips (Thysanoptera) pollination in Australian subtropical rainforests, with particular reference to pollination of Wilkiea hugeliana. (Monimiaceae). Journal of Natural History 35: 1-21
  11. ↑ Terry, Irene. "Thrips: the primeval pollinators?" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-08-15.
  12. ↑ "Species Thrips setipennis (Bagnall, 1916)". Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. 2009-05-20. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
  13. ↑ "VECKANS VÄXT" (PDF) (in Swedish). Uppsala University. 2006-09-28. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
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