Ungeria
Ungeria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. It just contains one species, Ungeria floribunda Schott & Endl. It is also in the Helicteroideae subfamily and Helictereae tribe.
Its native range is Norfolk Island. It is found in Mount Pitt Nature Reserve.
Description
It is a tree that can grow up to tall. It has leaves which are broadly elliptic or obovate and evergreen. The leaf blades are about long and wide. It has deep pink flowers. The flowers each have five deep pink petals long and it thought to be pollinated by birds. The fruits are 5 lobed and star-shaped in cross-section.Moths of Austrocarea iocephala subspecies millsi can be found on the tree.
It is related to the Durian.
Taxonomy
It has the common name of 'Bastard Oak', was listed as Vulnerable in 2003 on Norfolk Island. 502 plants were counted in 2003.The genus name of Ungeria is in honour of Franz Unger, an Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist. The Latin specific epithet of floribunda means "many-flowering",.
Both the genus and sole species were first described and published in Meletemata Botanica on page 27 in 1832.
The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.