Wilkiea

Plants in the genus Wilkeia are monoecious or dioecious trees or shrubs with sometimes toothed, papery to leathery leaves with many fine oil dots. The flowers are borne in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets in cymes or panicles, usually with 3 to 9 flowers. Male flowers are more or less spherical, with 4 to 8 tepals usually with 4 to 8 stamens. Female flowers are flattened spherical, with minute tepals with many carpels with a short stigma. The fruit is an oval, black drupe about {{cvt|15–20|mm}} long.{{cite web |last1=Whiffin |first1=Trevor P. |last2=Foreman |first2=Donald B. |title=Wilkiea |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Wilkiea |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra |access-date=5 May 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Harden |first1=Gwen J. |title=Genus Wilkiea |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&showsyn=&dist=&constat=&lvl=gn&name=Wilkiea |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney |access-date=5 May 2024}}

The genus Wilkiea was first formally described in 1857 by Ferdinand von Mueller in the journal Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria.{{cite web |title=Wilkiea |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/508793 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=5 May 2024}} The first species he described (the type species), was W. calyptrocalyx,{{cite journal |last1=von Mueller |first1=Ferdinand |title=Account of some new Australian plants. |journal=Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria |date=1857 |volume=2 |page=64 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108467#page/92/mode/1up |access-date=5 May 2024}} now known as Wilkiea macrophylla (Tul.) A.DC..{{cite web |title=Wilkiea macrophylla |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:582504-1#synonyms |publisher=Plants of the World Online |access-date=5 May 2024}}

The genus appears to have an Australian or southern origin.{{cite book |url=http://rainforestpublishing.com.au/shop/rainforest-trees-of-south-eastern-australia/ |title=Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia |first=A. G. |last=Floyd |author-link=Alexander Floyd |publisher=Terania Rainforest Publishing |location=Lismore, New South Wales |year=2008 |edition=2nd, Revised |isbn= 978-0-958943-67-3 |page=226 |access-date=2010-04-21}}

The following species of Wilkiea are accepted by Plants of the World Online as at April 2024:[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:27118-1 Wilkiea F.Muell.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 February 2024.

• Wilkiea angustifolia {{Au|(F.M.Bailey) Perkins}} – Queensland
• Wilkiea austroqueenslandica {{Au|Domin}} – southeastern Queensland and northeastern New South Wales
• Wilkiea cordata {{Au|Whiffin}} – northeastern Queensland
• Wilkiea foremanii {{Au|Philipson}} – eastern New Guinea
• Wilkiea hugeliana {{Au|(Tul.) A.DC.}} – southeastern Queensland and northeastern New South Wales
• Wilkiea hylandii {{Au|Whiffin}} – northern Queensland
• Wilkiea kaarruana {{Au|Zich & A.J.Ford}} – Queensland
• Wilkiea longipes {{Au|(Benth.) Whiffin & Foreman}} – northern and northeastern Queensland
• Wilkiea macrophylla {{Au|(Tul.) A.DC.}} – Queensland and New South Wales
• Wilkiea pubescens {{Au|(Benth.) Whiffin & Foreman}} – northeastern Queensland
• Wilkiea rigidifolia {{Au|(A.C.Sm.) Whiffin & Foreman}} – eastern New Guinea and Queensland
• Wilkiea smithii {{Au|Whiffin}} – northeastern Queensland

• Pendressia wardellii {{Au|(F.Muell.) Whiffin}} (as Wilkiea wardellii {{Au|(F.Muell.) Perkins}})[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77195329-1 Pendressia wardellii (F.Muell.) Whiffin] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 February 2024.

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Category:Monimiaceae genera

Category:Dioecious plants

Category:Flora of the Australasian realm

Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller