Austrobaileya
Genus of plants in the family Austrobaileyaceae / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Austrobaileya is the sole genus consisting of a single species that constitutes the entire flowering plant family Austrobaileyaceae.[3][4][5][6][7][8] The species Austrobaileya scandens grows naturally only in the Wet Tropics rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia.[4][5][8][9][10]
Austrobaileya | |
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Foliage, Wooroonooran National Park | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Order: | Austrobaileyales |
Family: | Austrobaileyaceae Croizat[2][3] |
Genus: | Austrobaileya C.T.White |
Species: | A. scandens |
Binomial name | |
Austrobaileya scandens C.T.White[4] | |
Synonyms[5] | |
Austrobaileya maculata C.T.White |
The name A. maculata is recognised as a synonym of A. scandens.[4][5]
Austrobaileya plants grow as woody lianas or vines. Their main growing stems loosely twine, with straight, extending, leafy branches. The leaves are leathery, veined and simple. The leaves produce essential oils in spherical ethereal oil cells. Their foliage is damaged by oxidation in direct sunlight, so it tends to grow beneath the rainforest canopy, in low-sunlight and very humid conditions.[11] Like many other flowering plants growing in the understory of tropical rainforest, it does not have palisade mesophyll tissue or low leaf photosynthetic rates. It relies strongly on vegetative reproduction for continuation of the species.[citation needed]