''Levieria'' is a genus of

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s belonging to the family

Monimiaceae The Monimiaceae is a family (biology), family of flowering plants in the magnoliid Order (biology), order Laurales.Peter F. Stevens (2001 onwards). "Monimiaceae" At: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. At: Botanical Databases At: Missouri Botanical Gar ...

. They are

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trees or shrubs. It is native to

Sulawesi Sulawesi ( ), also known as Celebes ( ), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the List of islands by area, world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Min ...

, the

Maluku Islands The Maluku Islands ( ; , ) or the Moluccas ( ; ) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonics, Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located in West ...

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

and

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(north-eastern Australia). The genus name of ''Levieria'' is in honour of Emilio Levier (1839–1911), a Swiss-born Italian botanist, mycologist and plant collector in

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. It was first described and published in Malesia Vol.1 on page 192 in 1877.

Known species

According to Kew: *'' Levieria acuminata'' – eastern New Guinea and northeastern Queensland *'' Levieria beccariana'' – eastern New Guinea *'' Levieria montana'' – Sulawesi, Maluku Islands, and New Guinea *'' Levieria nitens'' – New Guinea *'' Levieria orientalis'' – eastern New Guinea *'' Levieria scandens'' – eastern New Guinea *'' Levieria squarrosa'' – New Guinea

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5974136 Monimiaceae Monimiaceae genera Dioecious plants Flora of the Australasian realm Plants described in 1877 Taxa named by Odoardo Beccari