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Heptapleurum bractescens

Heptapleurum bractescens
Photo: Centre for National Biodiversity Research, CC BY 4.0
Family
Araliaceae (Ivy family)
Grows as
Tree
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
New Guinea (incl. Kep. Aru) to Queensland (Cook)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Heptapleurum bractescens is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae. It is native to New Guinea and to far northern Queensland in Australia. Originally named from a New Guinea collection, it was identified as a different species, Schefflera versteegii, when first discovered in Australia.

Where it grows

It grows in the lowlands of southern Papua New Guinea, including the Papuan Peninsula and Goodenough Island, in the Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests, Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests, and Southeastern Papuan rain forests ecoregions. It also grows in the Iron Range and McIlwraith Range of Queensland, in the Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna ecoregion.

Other Heptapleurum plants

Umbrella tree · Heptapleurum acuminatissimum · Heptapleurum acutissimum · Heptapleurum agamae · Heptapleurum albidobracteatum · Heptapleurum alongense · Heptapleurum alpinum · Heptapleurum angiense · Heptapleurum apiculatum · Heptapleurum aromaticum · Heptapleurum beccarianum · Heptapleurum bourdillonii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Heptapleurum bractescens 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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