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Mackinlaya macrosciadea
Also called Blue umbrella
Mackinlaya macrosciadea, known as blue umbrella, is an evergreen understorey shrub or small tree from northern Australian rainforests, grown mainly as a specimen or in tropical gardens. Its key requirement is warm, humid, shaded conditions with consistent moisture.
Mackinlaya macrosciadea, commonly known as mackinlaya or blue umbrella, is a plant in the carrot, fennel and parsley family Apiaceae, found in the Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia.
Mackinlaya is present both in and on the margins of various types of rainforest, where it is an understorey tree. It occurs in a number of disjunct ranges - one in the Northern Territory in the Arnhem Plateau and Pine Creek bioregions, and several populations on the east coast of Queensland, from Lockhart River to the Sunshine Coast. The altitudinal range in Queensland is from sea level to 1,100 m (3,600 ft).
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mackinlaya macrosciadea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
