Hollandaea diabolica

Hollandaea diabolica is a species of Australian rainforest trees, constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae.[1][3][4][5]

Hollandaea diabolica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Hollandaea
Species:
H. diabolica
Binomial name
Hollandaea diabolica
A.J.Ford & P.H.Weston[1][2][3]
Synonyms[1][3][4][5]
  • Proteaceae sp. 'Devils Thumb'
  • Orites sp. Devils Thumb (P.I.Forster + PIF10720)
  • Hollandaea sp. (Devils Thumb P.I.Forster + PIF10720)
  • Hollandaea sp. (Devils Thumb)
  • Orites sp. (Pinnacle Rock Track WWC 867)

They are endemic to restricted areas of the rainforests of the Wet Tropics region of northeastern Queensland.[1][5]

Hollandaea diabolica was recognised by botanical science only as recently as the 1990s and formally scientifically described in 2012 by botanists Andrew Ford and Peter Weston.[1][2][3][5] Around the early 1990s the trees were recognised only in a restricted area in the mountains west and north west of Mossman, Queensland. Another population of H. diabolica affinity was subsequently found south of Mount Bellenden Ker but collections were only of sterile material and not yet fertile and fruiting material.[1] They may grow naturally only in the restricted mountains areas reported, further field work will clarify this.[1][4]

For the restricted, disjunct and small known populations of these trees, the authorities of their 2012 species naming, Andrew Ford and Peter Weston, recommend the conservation status of vulnerable according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) criteria, "under categories VU, D1 and D2".[1]

References
  1. Ford, Andrew J.; Weston, Peter H. (2012). "A taxonomic revision of Hollandaea F.Muell. (Proteaceae)". Austrobaileya. 8 (4): 670–687.
  2. Bostock, Peter D.; Holland, Ailsa E., eds. (16 August 2013). "Hollandaea [8784–8788]". 2013 Census of the Queensland Flora. Brisbane: Queensland Herbarium, Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  3. "Hollandaea%". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS) database (listing by % wildcard matching of all taxa relevant to Australia). Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  4. Hyland, B. P. M.; Whiffin, T.; Zich, F. A.; et al. (December 2010). "Factsheet – Orites sp. Devils Thumb (P.I.Forster PIF10720) [Ford & Weston (2012) described as Hollandaea diabolica]". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants (6.1, online version RFK 6.1 ed.). Cairns, Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), through its Division of Plant Industry; the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research; the Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  5. Cooper, Wendy; Cooper, William T. (June 2004). "Hollandaea sp. (Devils Thumb)". Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest. Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia: Nokomis Editions. p. 414. ISBN 9780958174213. Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
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