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Species of flowering plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ungeria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. It just contains one species, Ungeria floribunda Schott & Endl.[1] It is also in the Helicteroideae subfamily and Helictereae tribe.[2]
Ungeria | |
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Watercolour illustration by John Doody of Ungeria floribunda | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malvales |
Family: | Malvaceae |
Tribe: | Helictereae |
Genus: | Ungeria Schott & Endl. |
Species: | U. floribunda |
Binomial name | |
Ungeria floribunda Schott & Endl. | |
Its native range is Norfolk Island (in the Pacific Ocean near Australia).[1] It is found in Mount Pitt Nature Reserve (part of Norfolk Island National Park).[3]
It is a tree that can grow up to 15 m (49 ft) tall.[4] It has leaves which are broadly elliptic or obovate and evergreen.[5] The leaf blades are about 6–12 cm (2–5 in) long and 4–8 cm (2–3 in) wide.[3] It has deep pink flowers.[5] The flowers each have five deep pink petals 16–20 mm (1–1 in) long and it thought to be pollinated by birds. The fruits are 5 lobed and star-shaped in cross-section.[3]
Moths of Austrocarea iocephala subspecies millsi can be found on the tree.[6]
It has the common name of 'Bastard Oak', (due to the inferior quality of the timber,[3]) was listed as Vulnerable in 2003 on Norfolk Island.[7] 502 plants were counted in 2003.[3]
The genus name of Ungeria is in honour of Franz Unger (1800–1870), an Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist.[8] The Latin specific epithet of floribunda means "many-flowering", (such as Floribunda).[9] Both the genus and sole species were first described and published in Meletemata Botanica (Melet. Bot.) on page 27 in 1832.[1] The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.[2]
On 14 January 2020, an image of Ungeria floribunda was used on a postage stamp for Australia, one of two 'Norfolk Island Early Botanical Art' stamps.[4]
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