''Gillbeea'' is a

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of three species of

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n rainforest trees from the family

Cunoniaceae Cunoniaceae is a family of 27 Genus, genera and about 335 species of woody plants in the order Oxalidales, mostly found in the tropical and wet temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere. The greatest diversity of genera are in Australia and Ta ...

. Botanical science has formally published , the names and descriptions of one species

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and two species endemic to the Wet Tropics rainforests of northeastern

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. These two Wet Tropics, NE. Qld species each only grow naturally in different tablelands rainforest regions, separated from each other for millions of years by a relatively narrow belt of drier non–rainforest landscape.

Naming and classification

In 1865, European science formally published the name and description of this genus using John Dallachy's northeastern Queensland ''Gillbeea adenopetala'' type specimen collection, authored by

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based German–Australian botanist

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...

. Mueller named this genus after Melbourne medical doctor William Gillbee. In 1915, the species name ''Gillbeea papuana'' and description was formally scientifically published by German botanist

Rudolf Schlechter Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (16 October 1872 – 16 November 1925) was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids. He went on botanical expeditions in Africa, Indonesia, New Guinea, South and Central America and ...

. In 1960, a revision of this genus and three more related genera of the family Cunoniaceae was published by

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botanist

Ruurd Dirk Hoogland Ruurd Dirk Hoogland (1922 Leeuwarden - 18 November 1994 Paris) was a Dutch-born explorer and naturalist, who migrated to Australia and made numerous botanical expeditions to New Guinea, Oceania and Europe. He was an expert on the family Cunoniaceae ...

. Only in the year 2000, was the species name ''Gillbeea whypallana'' and description formally scientifically published by Australian botanists Andrew C. Rozefelds and Belinda Pellow from Tasmania. In October 2013, a study was published of the

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and morphologies of the members of the plant tribe Geissoieae of the family Cunoniaceae, including a synopsis of its genera. Evidence was published that ''Gillbeea'' was moderately supported as an early relative of the tribe Geissoieae and the authors described the requirement for more evidence, however, before including ''Gillbeea'' in an expanded description of the tribe.

Species

Sources: * '' Gillbeea adenopetala'' Pink Alder –

Atherton Tableland The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the Barron River. It was dammed to form an irrigation reservoir named Lake Tina ...

endemic, NE. Qld, Australia endemic * '' Gillbeea papuana'' – New Guinea endemic * '' Gillbeea whypallana'' – Windsor–Carbine tablelands and

Daintree Rainforest The Daintree Rainforest is a region on the northeast coast of Queensland, Australia, north of Mossman, Queensland, Mossman and Cairns. At around , the Daintree is a part of the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest on the Australia (co ...

restricted endemic, NE Qld, Australia

References

External links

{{Taxonbar, from=Q8964068 Cunoniaceae Oxalidales genera