Genus of flowering plants
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Whyanbeelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Picrodendraceae with only one species, Whyanbeeliaterrae-reginae that is endemic to a small area of Queensland. "Whyanbeeliaterrae-reginae" is a dioecious rainforest tree with narrowly egg-shaped leaves, flowers arranged in loose groups, and fruit a more or less spherical capsule.
Description.
"Whyanbeeliaterrae-reginae" is a dioecious tree that typically grows to a height of up to , its young growth covered with soft hairs. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, narrowly elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long, and tapering to a long drip tip. The leaves sometimes smell like sarsaparilla when crushed. The flowers are arranged in upper leaf axils in groups long, of all male flowers or male flowers interspersed with female flowers. Individual flowers are borne on a pedicel up to long. Male flowers have sepals in two whorls of three, the outer sepals egg-shaped, long and about wide, the inner sepals round and about in diameter. Male flowers have between 50 and 55 stamens. Female flowers have six tapering sepals that are similar to each other and long. The ovary is oval, about long and wide and densely softly-hairs with three styles long.
Taxonomy.
The genus "Whyanbeelia" and the species "Whyanbeelia terrae-reginae" were first formally described in 1976 by Herbert Airy Shaw and Bernard Hyland in the "Kew Bulletin", from specimens collected in the Whyanbeel Nature Reserve. The genus name("Whyanbeelia"), is derived from th aboriginal name for the type location.
Distribution and habitat.
This rainforest tree grows in rainforest between the Daintree and Johnstone Rivers at altitudes between , in north-eastern Queensland.
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