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Neoroepera buxifolia

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Neoroepera buxifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Picrodendraceae
Genus: Neoroepera
Species:
N. buxifolia
Binomial name
Neoroepera buxifolia

Neoroepera buxifolia is a plant species in the Picrodendraceae family.

It is a monoecious shrub or small tree growing to 6 m high. The leaves are elliptic, 1 to 4 cm long, 0.6 to 2 cm wide and evenly spaced along the stems. The flowers are clustered along a short axis and subtended by numerous microscopic, semi-circular hairy bracts. The male flowers are 4.5 to 8 mm long, have 4 to 7 stamens, although usually 6, and ciliate margins on the perianth lobes. The female flowers are solitary, and apical with several male flowers below, 1 to 2 mm in diameter and styles with three distal, flattened, stigmatic portions. The fruit are obloid to obovoid, 5 to 8 mm long, at first conspicuously crowned with 3 long-persisting styles. The seeds are usually ellipsoid becoming dorsiventrally flattened with maturity and black when ripe.[1]

It is endemic to the Gladstone District of Queensland, Australia.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Communications, c=AU; o=The State of Queensland; ou=Department of Environment and Science; ou=Corporate (2014-10-20). "Species profile | Environment, land and water". apps.des.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-04-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "UQ eSpace". espace.library.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2024-04-29.