Biology:Gunnessia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Gunnessia
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Marsdenieae
Genus: Gunnessia
P.I.Forst.
Species:
G. pepo
Binomial name
Gunnessia pepo
P.I.Forst.

Gunnessia is a species of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1990.[1] It contains only one known species, Gunnessia pepo endemic to the State of Queensland in Australia .[2]

Altitudinal range from near sea level to 100 m. Grows in vine thicket, monsoon forest and rain forest.

References

  1. Forster, Paul Irwin. 1990. Austrobaileya 3(2): 282
  2. The Plant List

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