Genus of flowering plants
Palmeria is a genus of about 17 species of flowering plants in the family Monimiaceae mostly native to Australia and New Guinea. One species ("Palmeria arfakiana") 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.
Description.
Plants in the genus "Palmeria" are dioecious woody climbers or climbing shrubs. Its leaves are sometimes have wavy edges, and are papery to thinly leather-like. The flowers are borne in racemes or panicles in leaf axils usually with 7 to 15 flowers (sometimes up to 40 flowers), covered with star-shaped hairs. Male flowers are cup-shaped to flattened hemispheres with 4 to 7 tepals and many stamens. Female flowers are spherical or urn-shaped with about 5 tepals usually with 5 to 10 carpels and a linear stigma. The perianth is fleshy, and splits to reveal a sessile drupe.
Taxonomy.
The genus "Palmeria" was first formally described in 1864 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his "Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae" and the first species he described (the type species) was "Palmeria scandens". The genus name ("Palmeria") is in honor of Sir James F. Palmer.
Species list.
The following species of "Palmeria" are accepted by Plants of the World Online as at April 2024:
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