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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|image = Wilkiea huegeliana Barrenjoey.JPG
|image_caption = Fruiting ''[[Wilkiea huegeliana]]'' at [[Barrenjoey, New South Wales|Barrenjoey]], [[Australia]]
|taxon = Wilkiea
|authority = [[F.Muell.]]<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Wilkiea'' |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:27118-1 |publisher=Plants of the World Online |access-date=5 May 2024}}</ref>
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = 12; see text
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}}
'''''Wilkiea''''' is a [[genus]] of flowering plants in the family [[Monimiaceae]], and is native to Australia and New Guinea. Plants in this genus are [[Monoecy|monoecious]] or sometimes [[dioecious]] trees and shrubs, the leaves with many fine oil dots, male and female flowers in [[Cyme (botany)|cymes]] or [[panicle]]s, and oval black [[drupe]]s.
==Description==
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 [[tepal]]s usually with 4 to 8 [[stamen]]s. Female flowers are flattened spherical, with minute tepals with many [[Gynoecium#Carpels|carpel]]s with a short [[Stigma (botany)|stigma]]. The fruit is an oval, black drupe about {{cvt|15–20|mm}} long.<ref name="FoA">{{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}}</ref><ref name="RBGS">{{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}}</ref>
==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Wilkiea'' was first formally described in 1857 by [[Ferdinand von Mueller]] in the journal ''Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria''.<ref name="APNI">{{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}}</ref> The first species he described (the [[type species]]), was ''W. calyptrocalyx'',<ref name="F.Muell.">{{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}}</ref> now known as ''[[Wilkiea macrophylla]]'' <small>([[Tul.]]) [[A.DC.]]</small>.<ref name="POWO2">{{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}}</ref>
The genus appears to have an Australian or southern origin.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
===Species list===
The following species of ''Wilkiea'' are accepted by [[Plants of the World Online]] as at April 2024:<ref name=powo>[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.</ref>
* ''[[Wilkiea angustifolia]]'' {{Au|([[F.M.Bailey]]) [[Janet Russell Perkins|Perkins]]}} – Queensland
* ''[[Wilkiea austroqueenslandica]]'' {{Au|[[Domin]]}} – southeastern Queensland and northeastern New South Wales
* ''[[Wilkiea cordata]]'' {{Au|[[Trevor Paul Whiffin|Whiffin]]}} – northeastern Queensland
* ''[[Wilkiea foremanii]]'' {{Au|[[William Raymond Philipson|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|[[Frank Zich|Zich]] & [[A.J.Ford]]}} – Queensland
* ''[[Wilkiea longipes]]'' {{Au|([[Benth.]]) Whiffin & [[Donald Bruce Foreman|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
===Formerly placed here===
* ''[[Pendressia wardellii]]'' {{Au|([[F.Muell.]]) Whiffin}} (as ''Wilkiea wardellii'' {{Au|(F.Muell.) Perkins}})<ref>[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.</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Monimiaceae genera]]
[[Category:Dioecious plants]]
[[Category:Australasian realm flora]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller]]
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