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Wilkiea rigidifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae, and is native to north Queensland and New Guinea. It is a shrub or small tree with elliptic to broadly elliptic or oblong leaves, and male and female flowers on separate plants. Male flowers are borne in clusters of 20 to 30, and have 4 pairs of tepals, and 2 or 3 pairs of stamens, and female flowers have 2 pairs of tepals, and 40 to 50 carpels. The fruit is a glossy black drupe.
This species grows in a variety of habitats, from dry woodland to rainforest at altitudes up to 550 m (1,800 ft) on the Cape York Peninsula, in northeast Queensland and in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
Wilkiea angustifolia · Smooth Wilkiea · Wilkiea cordata · Wilkiea huegeliana · Wilkiea hylandii · Wilkiea kaarruana · Wilkiea longipes · Large-leaved Wilkiea · Tetra beech · Wilkiea smithii · Wilkiea
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Wilkiea rigidifolia 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.
