Wilkiea hugeliana
English: Common wilkiea; Tetra beech; Veiny wilkiea.
Genus: ± 12 species.
Region: Asia-Tropical, Malesia, New Guinea; eastern Australia, Queensland and New South Wales.
Habitat: understory of rainforests, volcanic soils.
Botany
Shrubs or small tree; ± 8 meters high; dioecious.
Stem: trunk often crooked, irregular, not buttressed; bark smooth, brown, greyish, scaly on larger plants.
Leaves: opposite or verticillate, entire or serrate; ± 10 cm long, ± 3 cm wide,opposite, elliptic or oblong, toothed margins, rarely entire, rounded at the top, tapering at the stem, dark and glossy above, dull and paler underneath, leaf stalks are ± 8 mm long, very heavily and noticeably veined, particularly below the leaf;
Flowers: yellow, green, fragrant; fruit receptacle is shiny black, ± 10 mm in diameter, without a stalk, together on a tubular disk.
Seeds:white on the darker forest floor, after having been dropped by birds.
Pollination: by Thrips setipennis, a species of thrips.