Hollandaea
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| Hollandaea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Subfamily: | Grevilleoideae |
| Tribe: | Roupaleae |
| Subtribe: | Heliciinae |
| Genus: | Hollandaea F.Muell.[1][2][3] |
| Type species | |
| Hollandaea sayeri (F.Muell.) F.Muell. – a nomenclatural synonym of: Hollandaea sayeriana | |
| Species | |
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Hollandaea is a small genus of plants in the family Proteaceae containing four species of Australian rainforest trees.[1][2][3][4][5][6] All four species are endemic to restricted areas of the Wet Tropics of northeast Queensland.[4][5][6]
The genus was formally described in an 1887 publication 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.[1][6][7]
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 "On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family".[8] 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.[9]