''Beaupreopsis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family

Proteaceae The Proteaceae form a family (biology), family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genus, genera with about 1,660 known species. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentr ...

, with just one species in the genus, ''Beaupreopsis paniculata''. It is native to New Caledonia on the south of Grand Terre. Its habitat is shrubland at altitudes from , on substrates of eroded

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rocks.

Description

The plants are shrubs, rarely exceeding 1.50 m in height, with thick branches, scattered and few. They have pseudo-whorled leaves (5-10 x 0, 20-0, 60 cm), more or less toothed or lobed at the apex, cuneate at the base, leathery, venation slightly prominent, petiole short and robust. Flowers are small, white or pinkish in terminal panicles from 20 to 50 cm. The fruits are small and hairy, containing a single seed.

Taxonomy

This plant was first described as ''Cenarrhenes paniculata'' in 1865 by French botanists Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart and Jean Antoine Arthur Gris, and published in ''Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France''. In 1968 the species was reviewed by another French botanist, Robert Virot, who created the new genus ''Beaupreopsis'' and transferred the species to it. His work was published in ''Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances''. The genus ''Beaupreopsis'' is most closely related to the genera '' Cenarrhenes'' (

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) and '' Dilobeia'' (

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References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q4877611, from2=Q15574805 Proteoideae Monotypic Proteaceae genera Endemic flora of New Caledonia Taxa named by Jean Antoine Arthur Gris Taxa named by Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart Taxa named by Robert Virot