Ungeria
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{For|a synonym of a genus of sedges|Cyperus}}
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|image_caption = Watercolour illustration by John Doody of Ungeria floribunda
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|genus = Ungeria
|parent_authority = Schott & Endl.
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Ungeria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. It just contains one species, Ungeria floribunda Schott & Endl.{{cite web |title=Ungeria Schott & Endl. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38847-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=2 January 2022 |language=en}} It is also in the Helicteroideae subfamily and Helictereae tribe.{{cite web |title=Genus Ungeria Schott & Endl. |url=https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?id=12557 |website=npgsweb.ars-grin.gov |access-date=2 January 2022}}
Its native range is Norfolk Island (in the Pacific Ocean near Australia). It is found in Mount Pitt Nature Reserve (part of Norfolk Island National Park).Peter Coyne {{google books|68THCAAAQBAJ|Norfolk Island's Fascinating Flora (2011)|page=84}}
Description
It is a tree that can grow up to {{convert|15|m|0|abbr=on}} tall.{{cite web |title=stamp Ungeria floribunda 2020 |url=https://www.anbg.gov.au/stamps/stamp-ungeria-floribunda-2020.html |website=www.anbg.gov.au |access-date=2 January 2022 |language=en}} It has leaves which are broadly elliptic or obovate and evergreen.Australian Government Pub. Service, 1982 {{google books|zg4lAQAAMAAJ|Flora of Australia, Volume 49|page=108}} The leaf blades are about {{convert|6|-|12|cm|0|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|4|-|8|cm|0|abbr=on}} wide. It has deep pink flowers. The flowers each have five deep pink petals {{convert|16|-|20|mm|0|abbr=on}} long and it thought to be pollinated by birds. The fruits are 5 lobed and star-shaped in cross-section.
Moths of Austrocarea iocephala subspecies millsi can be found on the tree.J.D. Holloway {{google books|dTCL5zmvL0EC|Lepidoptera of Norfolk Island. Their Biogeography and Ecology (1977)|page=77}}
It is related (dna wise) to the Durian.
Taxonomy
It has the common name of 'Bastard Oak', (due to the inferior quality of the timber,) was listed as Vulnerable in 2003 on Norfolk Island.{{cite web |title=Ungeria floribunda — Bastard Oak |url=https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=41714 |access-date=2 January 2022}} 502 plants were counted in 2003.
The genus name of Ungeria is in honour of Franz Unger (1800–1870), an Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} The Latin specific epithet of floribunda means "many-flowering", (such as Floribunda).{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}
Both the genus and sole species were first described and published in Meletemata Botanica (Melet. Bot.) on page 27 in 1832.
The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.
Culture
On 14 January 2020, an image of Ungeria floribunda was used on a postage stamp for Australia, one of two 'Norfolk Island Early Botanical Art' stamps.
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Category:Monotypic Malvales genera