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Neorites
Sign in to saveNeorites is a plant genus containing a single species in the family Proteaceae. The sole species Neorites kevedianus, commonly called fishtail oak or fishtail silky oak, is a tall tree endemic to the wet tropics rainforests of north eastern Queensland, Australia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderProteales
- FamilyProteaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 12
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Proteaceae
- Collections
- BPBM, ASU
- Recorded in
- Australia
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy and naming
- Description
- Distribution and habitat
- References
Neorites is a plant genus containing a single species in the family Proteaceae. The sole species Neorites kevedianus, commonly called fishtail oak or fishtail silky oak, is a tall tree endemic to the wet tropics rainforests of north eastern Queensland, Australia.
==Taxonomy and naming== Queensland botanist Lindsay Smith named the species in 1969, based on a specimen collected near Kuranda in 1955 by Queensland forestry officers Kevin J. White and H. Edgar Volck. Smith coined the species name from the first names of the finders.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Neorites” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.