Wilkiea longipes is a species of flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae, and is endemic to northern Queensland. It is a shrub or small tree with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and male and female flowers on separate plants. Male flowers usually have 3 or 4 pairs of stamens and female flowers have about 9 to 13 carpels.
Wilkiea longipes is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long. The leaves have scalloped edges and the midvein is prominent on the lower surface. Male and female flowers are borne on separate plants. Male flowers are borne in leaf axils, sometimes on woody branches, in clusters of 5 to 11, up to long, each flower club-shaped to spherical long with 4 pairs of tepals, on a pedicel long with 3 or 4 pairs of stamens. Female flowers are borne in leaf axils in groups of 3, mostly long, each flower more or less spherical, about in diameter on a pedicel long, with 9 to 13 carpels. Flowering occurs from November to May, and the fruit is a spherical to oval, black or dark blue drupe long and wide.[1]
This species was first formally described in 1870 by George Bentham and given the name Kibara longipes from a specimen collected by John Dallachy.[2] [3] In 2007, Trevor Paul Whiffin and Donald Bruce Foreman transferred the species to Wilkiea as W. longipes in the Flora of Australia.[4]
This species grows in rainforest and vine forest at altitudes from in north-east Queensland and on Cape York.