Scientific Name: Wilkiea huegeliana
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Pronunciation:will-KEY-ah you-glee-AH-nah
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Common Name:Veiny Wilkiea
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Derivation:Wilkiea: honours Dr. D. E. Wilkie, 19th cent. president of Victorian Philosophical Institute||huegeliana: honour Baron von Heugel 1795-1870, Austrial traveller, plant collector and patron of horticulture collected in W.A. in 1833 and in the Philippines.
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Type:
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Family:MONIMIACEAE
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Flowers:Yellowish/green cup-shaped,dioecious, Septemer to February
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Fruit:Carpel, black, glossy, ovoid, to 16 mm dia
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Vegetation Type:Sub-tropical and dry rainforest,
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Species List:Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Wooroi Palm Grove, Old Tewantin, Fraser Island, Janet, Upper Yandina Creek, Boreen Point, NNP Palm Grove, Dandaloo, Stratford Park, Heritage Park
Identification Notes
Branchlets green and sometimes hairy ||Stipules absent ||Lichen grow on the long-lasting leaves of this rainforest genus||"Leaves oblong to elliptic, often narrowly so, 6–15 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, apex ± bluntly pointed, base rounded, glabrous or sometimes hairy, very stiff; teeth usually stiff and prominent, rarely reduced and margins ± entire except for hardened points of teeth; finest reticulum always prominent and raised below even in fresh leaves; petiole usually 6–10 mm long.||Male flowers 2–3 mm diam. with only the outer pair of perianth lobes duplicated inside; stamens c. 8; female flowers 3–4 mm diam., receptacle and carpels hairy.||Fruiting receptacle 7–12 mm diam., carpels 20–30." PlantNET ||
Associated Fauna
Butterfly host plant: Regent skipper.
Landscaping Notes
Useful shrub because it is hardy and tolerant of shade. Flowers are fragrant. Foliage is stiff and dark green with coarsely toothed margins and prominent veins. ||Propagation from seed, ripening from May-September, and germinating easily. It is hardy and can be grown in sun or shade and will tolerate a wide variety of soil types, providing they are well-drained.||Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery||Successfully propagated by Barung Landcare||