''Richea procera'', the lowland richea, is a plant in the family
Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c.4250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it th ...
, endemic to
Tasmania
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Australia. It is found in lowland areas of Tasmania with unusually small leaves for the genus ''
Richea
''Richea'' is a genus of 11 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. Nine of the species are endemic to Tasmania and the other two are endemic to the south-east of the Australian mainland.
Species include:
*''Richea acerosa'' ( ...
''. Its leaves are parallel veined, from 10 to 335 mm long, 10 mm wide at the base. It is similar in appearance to the high altitude species
Richea sprengelioides
''Richea sprengelioides'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae. It is one of the 11 species within the genus ''Richea'' that are endemic to Australia, of which 9 are found only in Tasmania.
The species was first formally descr ...
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References
Endemic flora of Tasmania
procera
Procera is a hypothetical clade of amphibians that includes salamanders and caecilians but not frogs. A close relationship between salamanders and caecilians is a competing hypothesis to the more widely supported view that salamanders and frogs ...
Plants described in 1867
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller
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