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Huberantha

Huberantha is a genus of plants in the family Annonaceae and tribe Miliuseae. It is distributed in Australia, tropical Asia, East Africa and some Pacific islands. Tanawat Chaowasku named the genus "Huber's flowers" in honor of the German botanist Herbert Huber and to highlight its flowers as a distinguishing feature of the genus. A number of species have been moved here from the genus Polyalthia.

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Huberantha
Huberantha cerasoides (previously in genus Polyalthia)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Subfamily: Malmeoideae
Tribe: Miliuseae
Genus: Huberantha
Chaowasku
Synonyms

Hubera Chaowasku

Huberantha is a genus of plants in the family Annonaceae and tribe Miliuseae. It is distributed in Australia, tropical Asia, East Africa and some Pacific islands.1 Tanawat Chaowasku named the genus "Huber's flowers" in honor of the German botanist Herbert Huber and to highlight its flowers as a distinguishing feature of the genus.2 A number of species have been moved here from the genus Polyalthia.

Description

The leaf veins of Huberantha form an interconnected net-like pattern. Their flowers are axillary. They have a single ovule and seed per ovary. A portion of their ovules remain fused to the seed coat forming a flat raphe. Their seed coats form spine-like intrusions into their endosperm. A layer of the outer pollen wall, called the infratectum, has a granular appearance.2

Species

Plants of the World Online1 lists:

  • Huberantha amoena (A.C.Sm.) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha asymmetrica I.M.Turner & Utteridge
  • Huberantha capillata (A.C.Sm.) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha ceramensis (Boerl.) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha cerasoides (Roxb.) Chaowasku - type species
  • Huberantha decora (Diels) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha flava (Merr.) I.M.Turner
  • Huberantha forbesii (F.Muell. ex Diels) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha gracilis (Burck) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha henrici (Diels) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha hirta (Miq.) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha humblotii (Drake ex Cavaco & Keraudren) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha jenkinsii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha keraudreniae (Le Thomas & G.E.Schatz) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha korinti (Dunal) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha leptopoda (Diels) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha loriformis (Gillespie) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha luensis (Pierre) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha mossambicensis (Vollesen) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha multistamina (G.E.Schatz & Le Thomas) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha nitidissima (Dunal) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha palawanensis (Merr.) I.M.Turner
  • Huberantha papuana (Scheff.) I.M.Turner
  • Huberantha pendula (Capuron ex G.E.Schatz & Le Thomas) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha perrieri (Cavaco & Keraudren) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha rumphii (Blume ex Hensch.) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha sambiranensis (Capuron ex Le Thomas & G.E.Schatz) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha senjiana (R.Mural., Naras. & N.Balach.) R.Mural., Naras. & N.Balach.
  • Huberantha stuhlmannii (Engl.) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha tanganyikensis (Vollesen) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha trichoneura (Diels) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha verdcourtii (Vollesen) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha vitiensis (Seem.) Chaowasku
  • Huberantha whistleri I.M.Turner & Utteridge
References

References

  1. "Huberantha Chaowasku". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  2. Chaowasku, Tanawat; Johnson, David M.; van der Ham, Raymond W. J. M.; Chatrou, Lars W. (2015). "Huberantha, a replacement name for Hubera (Annonaceae: Malmeoideae: Miliuseae)" (PDF). Kew Bulletin. 70 (2): 23. Bibcode:2015KewBu..70...23C. doi:10.1007/s12225-015-9571-z. ISSN 0075-5974.