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Wilkiea longipes is a shrub or small tree from the rainforests of northern Queensland, with male and female flowers on separate plants. It is rarely grown as an ornamental and is best treated as a shade-tolerant understorey plant in warm, humid conditions.
Wilkiea longipes is a species of flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae, and is endemic to northern Queensland. It is a shrub or small tree with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and male and female flowers on separate plants. Male flowers usually have 3 or 4 pairs of stamens and female flowers have about 9 to 13 carpels.
This species grows in rainforest and vine forest at altitudes from 10 to 850 m (33 to 2,789 ft) in north-east Queensland and on Cape York.
Wilkiea angustifolia · Smooth Wilkiea · Wilkiea cordata · Wilkiea huegeliana · Wilkiea hylandii · Wilkiea kaarruana · Large-leaved Wilkiea · Tetra beech · Wilkiea rigidifolia · Wilkiea smithii · Wilkiea
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Wilkiea longipes 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.
