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Helicia insularis

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
New Guinea (Louisiade Arch.)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Helicia insularis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae. It is a tree endemic to the Louisiade Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. It is known only from Normanby and Rossel islands, where it grows on ridges in submontane mossy forest at 800 to 950 metres elevation.

Other Helicia plants

Helicia acutifolia · Helicia albiflora · Helicia amplifolia · Helicia attenuata · Austral oak · Blake's Silky Oak · Helicia calocoma · Helicia excelsa · Hairy Honeysuckle · Helicia fuscotomentosa · Brown Oak · Helicia grandifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Helicia insularis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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