Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition

Hemmantia webbii Whiffin


Herb (herbaceous or woody, under 1 m tall)
Shrub (woody or herbaceous, 1-6 m tall)
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Family

Whiffin, T. (2007) Flora of Australia 2: 453. Type: Mt Hemmant, July 1973, L.J. Webb & J.G. Tracey 10908; Holo: BRI; Iso: BRI.

Stem

Probably flowers and fruits as a shrub about 1-3 m tall. Oak grain in the stem.

Leaves

Leaf blades about 9-18 x 3-4.5 cm, margins coarsely toothed, with about 10-15 teeth on each side. Lateral veins forming distinct loops inside the blade margin. Terminal buds, young shoots and twigs clothed in long pale hairs. Oak grain in the twigs.

Flowers

Male flowers: Flowers in an inflorescence about 15-20 mm long developing with the new growth and near the terminal bud, densely clothed in long, straight hairs. Flowers about 7 mm long. Tepals fleshy, about 3-4 x 3 mm, clothed in long, pale hairs. A single large stamen about 2.2 x 1-1.2 mm sits in the base of the flower.

Fruit

Features not available.

Seedlings

Features not available.

Distribution and Ecology

Endemic to NEQ, known only from the Mt Hemmant area. Collected at 600 m. Grows as an understory plant in undisturbed, well developed, upland rain forest.

Synonyms
Gen. (AQ20546) sp. (Mt Hemmant L.J. Webb+ 10908) Staff of the Queensland Herbarium, Queensland Plant Names &, Queensland Plant Names & Distribution : 193(1993). Wilkiea sp. (Mt Hemmant BH 8485), Australian Tropical Rain Forest Plants, Trees, Shrubs & Vines. : (2003).
RFK Code
3360
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