Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Wilkiea hugeliana

Unripe fruit and leaves. Photographer Russell Cumming, Port Macquarie

Common name

Veiny wilkiea

Family

Monimiaceae

Where found

Forest and near streams. Coast and ranges north from Jervis Bay, rarely as far south as north east of Cobargo..

Notes

Shrub or tree to 9 m high. Fruit and fruit stalks fleshy. Bark greyish brown, at first smooth, becoming scaly. Stems hairless or occasionally hairy. Leaves opposite each other, 6–15 cm long, 10–60 mm wide, very stiff; hairless or sometimes hairy, finest reticulation always prominent and raised on the lower surface, teeth on the margins usually stiff and prominent, rarely reduced and the margins more or less entire except for the hardened points of the teeth, tips more or less bluntly pointed. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Flowers yellowish, with 4 or 6 'petals', 2–6 mm in diameter, in 5-9 flowered clusters. Swollen fruit stalks yellow to orange. Fruit black, clustered.

Wilkiea huegeliana in PlantNET.

PlantNET description (as Wilkiea huegeliana):  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Wilkiea~huegeliana (accessed 3 May 2021)