Brassiantha hedraiantheroides is a species of Australian understory shrubs or small trees, constituting part of the plant family Celastraceae.[1][2] In 2012 botanist Andrew J. Ford formally scientifically named and described them as the first recognised Australian species of the genusBrassiantha.[1] Previously several publications provided informal scientific descriptions of this species under the provisional names "Hedraianthera sp. Mossman (V.K.Moriarty 2557) Qld Herbarium" or "Hedraianthera sp. Mossman".[1][3][4][5]
They are endemic to a restricted area of the wet tropics rainforests of north eastern Queensland, Australia.[4]
They grow as understory shrubs or small trees in rainforests and sclerophyll forests from near sea level to about 600 m (2,000 ft) altitude.[4]
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Simmons, Mark P.; McKenna, Miles J.; Bacon, Christine D.; Yakobson, Kendra; Cappa, Jennifer J.; Archer, Robert H.; Ford, Andrew J. (Jan 2012). "Phylogeny of Celastraceae tribe Euonymeae inferred from morphological characters and nuclear and plastid genes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62 (1): 9–20. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.022. ISSN1055-7903. PMID22001302.
^"Hedraianthera [entries]". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) database, IBIS database. Canberra: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 13 Mar 2013.
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Bostock, P. D.; Holland, A. E., eds. (2010). Census of the Queensland Flora 2010. Brisbane: Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Resource Management. p. 39. Retrieved 13 Mar 2013.
