Hollandaea [SEP] parent taxon
Hollandaea
Hollandaea is a genus of four species known to science, of Australian rainforest trees, constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae.
All four species of trees grow naturally only (endemic) in restricted areas of the rainforests of the Wet Tropics region of north eastern Queensland.
Naming and classification.
European science formally described this genus in 1887, authored by German–Australian government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller, who named it in honour of Sir Henry Holland, Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1888 to 1892
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Lawrie Johnson and Barbara G. Briggs noted the unusual fruits and placed genus in its own subtribe Hollandaeinae within the tribe Helicieae in the subfamily Grevilleoideae in their 1975 monograph "". Molecular genetic analysis shows "Hollandaea" correlates most closely with the genus "Helicia" and the two are classified in the subtribe Heliciinae within the tribe Roupaleae.
Species.
- "Hollandaea sayeriana"
- "Hollandaea riparia"
- "Hollandaea diabolica"
- "Hollandaea porphyrocarpa"
Natural distributions.
"Hollandaea sayeriana