Eucryphia wilkiei

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Rosids  >  Oxalidales > Cunoniaceae  >  Eucryphia   wilkii 

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Plant  information

Common name:        none                                                                                 

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

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Leaves:         

Stem & branches: 

Habit:        

• Shrub or small tree 

• They grow 1 to 6 m tall 

Habitat:   

• Rainforests within an altitude range of about 1,200 to 1,500 m

Distribution:                  

• Eucryphia wilkiei is a species of rainforest shrubs endemic to restricted areas of cloud forests on mountain tops in the Wet Tropics region of northeastern Queensland

Additional notes:        

• In Jan. 1970 Jack (John H.) Wilkie (1902–1997), orchid expert and botanical explorer of the Mount Bellenden Ker region, was the first European–Australian person to scientifically discover them. 

• Bernie Hyland formally scientifically described the species name in 1997

• As of November 2013, botanists classify Eucryphia in the family Cunoniaceae.

• Its endemic, very restricted distribution has given rise to the conservation status of "vulnerable"

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucryphia_wilkii (2023)