''Sarcolobus pepo'' is species of flowering plant in the family

Apocynaceae Apocynaceae (, from '' Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison. Notable mem ...

. It is a climber

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to the State of

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

in northeastern

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. Its elevational range is from near sea level to 100 m. It grows in vine thicket, monsoon forest, and rain forest. The species was first described as ''Gunnessia pepo'' in 1990, and placed in the

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

genus ''Gunnessia''.Forster, Paul Irwin. 1990. Austrobaileya 3(2): 282 In 2022 it was placed in the genus '' Sarcolobus''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q129271634, from2=Q15355980 Asclepiadoideae Endemic flora of Queensland Plants described in 1990 Taxa named by Paul Irwin Forster