''Palmeria foremanii'', commonly known as anchor vine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae and is

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to an area near the

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border. It is a tall, woody climber or scrambling shrub with usually elliptic leaves, male and female flowers on separate plants with 5 tepals, male flowers with 40 to 43

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s, female flowers with 7 to 12

carpels Gynoecium (; ) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds. The gynoecium is the innermost whorl of a flower; it consists of (one or more) ''pistils'' ...

, and spherical, shiny black

drupe In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pit'', ''stone'', or '' pyrena'') of hardened endocarp with a seed (''kernel'') ...

Description

''Palmeria foremanii'' is a woody climber or scrambling shrub, its branchlets densely covered with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are usually elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The upper surface of the leaves is more or less glabrous and the lower surface is covered with golden-brown hairs. Male and female flowers are on separate plants and usually have 5 tepals. Male flowers are arranged in clusters of 7 to 13, long, each flower on a

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long, each with 40 to 43 stamens. Female flowers are arranged in clusters of 7 to 15, long, each flower on a

long, each with 7 to 12 carpels. Flowering occurs from March to August and the fruit is a shiny black, more or less spherical drupe, in diameter.

Taxonomy

''Palmeria foremanii'' was first formally described in 2007 by

Trevor Paul Whiffin Trevor ( Trefor in the Welsh language) is a common given name or surname of Welsh origin. It is an habitational name, deriving from the Welsh ''tre(f)'', meaning "homestead", or "settlement" and ''fawr'', meaning "large, big". The Cornish langua ...

in the '' Flora of Australia'' from specimens collected near The Head in 1978. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''foremanii'') was named in honour and remembrance of Donald Bruce Foreman.

Distribution and habitat

This species grows in subtropical or remnant rainforest between Mount Glorious in Queensland and the Whian Whian State Forest in New South Wales.

Conservation status

''Palmeria foremanii'' is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government ''

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''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18078781 Monimiaceae foremanii Laurales of Australia Flora of Queensland Flora of New South Wales Endemic flora of Australia Plants described in 2007