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Hedycarya
Sign in to saveHedycarya is a genus of about 16 species of flowering plants in the family Monimiaceae native to eastern Australia, New Zealand, and some Pacific Islands. Plants in the genus Hedycarya are shrubs, or small to medium trees with sometimes toothed leaves. The male and female flowers cup-shaped and are borne on separate plants. Male flowers usually have 8 tepals and many stamens and female flowers have 6 to 12 tepals with many carpels. The fruit is a cluster of drupes.
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Vinony's link graph records 8 inbound references to Hedycarya, and connects out to Georg Forster, Johann Reinhold Forster and plant.
It sits within the topics Dioecious plants, Monimiaceae genera and Taxa named by Georg Forster.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLaurales
- FamilyMonimiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 169
- With media
- 132
- Family
- Monimiaceae
- Collections
- NY, US, BPBM, A, MO
- Recorded in
- Vanuatu, Australia, New Caledonia, Indonesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Image
- Hedycarya arborea 2.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Species
- References
Hedycarya is a genus of about 16 species of flowering plants in the family Monimiaceae native to eastern Australia, New Zealand, and some Pacific Islands. Plants in the genus Hedycarya are shrubs, or small to medium trees with sometimes toothed leaves. The male and female flowers cup-shaped and are borne on separate plants. Male flowers usually have 8 tepals and many stamens and female flowers have 6 to 12 tepals with many carpels. The fruit is a cluster of drupes.
==Description== Plants in the genus Hedycarya are shrubs, or small to medium trees with male and female flowers on separate plants. Its leaves are papery to slightly leathery, sometimes regularly and coarsely toothed. The flowers are borne in more or less cup-shaped, raceme-like cymes or panicles in leaf axils or on the ends of branches, with up to 20 flowers. Male flowers usually have many stamens, the filaments very short to absent and female flowers have many carpels with a short, thick stigma and sometimes staminodes. The fruit is a loose to tight cluster of drupes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hedycarya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.