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Monoon michaelii
Monoon michaelii is a plant in the custard apple family Annonaceae found only in a very small part of the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, Australia. It was originally described as Polyalthia michaelii in 1915 and transferred to its current name in 2012.
Monoon michaelii is restricted to a very small area of northeastern Queensland, mostly contained within the boundaries of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. It inhabits rainforest around Mt Bartle Frere and Mt Bellenden Ker, in the catchments of the North and South Johnstone, the Russell and the Mulgrave Rivers, mostly on the coastal plains but ascending up to the edge of the Atherton Tableland. The altitudinal range is from sea level to about 750 m (2,460 ft), and the total "area of occupancy" is just 198 km2 (76 sq mi).
The tree produces a useful hardwood with the trade name of 'canary beech'. It has a specific gravity of 0.62.
Huberantha flava · Monoon australe · Monoon glabrum · Indian mast tree · Monoon pachyphyllum · Monoon patinatum · Polyalthia malabarica · Polyalthia angustissima · Polyalthia chrysotricha · Polyalthia elmeri · Monoon fragrans · Monoon harmandii
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Monoon michaelii 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.
