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Neoroepera buxifolia

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Species of flowering plant

Neoroepera buxifolia
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (NCA)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Picrodendraceae
Genus: Neoroepera
Species: N. buxifolia
Binomial name
Neoroepera buxifolia
Müll.Arg. & F.Muell.

Neoroepera buxifolia is a plant species in the Picrodendraceae family.

It is a monoecious shrub or small tree growing to 6 m high. The leaves are elliptic, 1 to 4 cm long, 0.6 to 2 cm wide and evenly spaced along the stems. The flowers are clustered along a short axis and subtended by numerous microscopic, semi-circular hairy bracts. The male flowers are 4.5 to 8 mm long, have 4 to 7 stamens, although usually 6, and ciliate margins on the perianth lobes. The female flowers are solitary, and apical with several male flowers below, 1 to 2 mm in diameter and styles with three distal, flattened, stigmatic portions. The fruit are obloid to obovoid, 5 to 8 mm long, at first conspicuously crowned with 3 long-persisting styles. The seeds are usually ellipsoid becoming dorsiventrally flattened with maturity and black when ripe.

It is endemic to the Gladstone District of Queensland, Australia.

References

  1. Communications, c=AU; o=The State of Queensland; ou=Department of Environment and Science; ou=Corporate (2014-10-20). "Species profile | Environment, land and water". apps.des.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-04-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. "UQ eSpace". espace.library.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
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Neoroepera buxifolia
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