| 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]
Alyxia is an Australasian genus of flowering plant in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. It contains at present 106 species, but Alyxia stellata and A. tisserantii are very variable, might be cryptic species complexes, and are need of further study. It consists of shrubby, climbing or scrambling plants. This genus occurs in China, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Caledonia and the Pacific Islands. There are 14 species in Australia, 21 in New Caledonia and 7 in the other Pacific Islands, including Hawaiʻi.
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.
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.
Wilkiea is a genus of dioecious trees and shrubs in the Mollinedieae tribe of the family Monimiaceae. They grow in eastern Australia and New Guinea. Species mostly have toothed leaves with short leaf stems and many oil dots on the leaves. The genus appears to have an Australian or southern origin.
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 flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae. Its range includes Sulawesi, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Australia.
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.