Biology:Excoecaria parvifolia
| Excoecaria parvifolia | |
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| in Bradshaw Field Training Area | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Genus: | Excoecaria |
| Species: | E. parvifolia
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| Binomial name | |
| Excoecaria parvifolia Müll.Arg.
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Excoecaria agallocha var. muelleriana Baill. | |
Excoecaria parvifolia is a plant in the Euphorbiaceae family, native to Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland[1][2] It is also known as the guttapercha tree, although it is botanically unrelated to the Southeast Asian gutta-percha (Palaquium gutta).[3]
It was first described by Johannes Müller Argoviensis in 1864, from a specimen collected by Ferdinand von Mueller in Arnhem Land.[4][5]
It is found across northern Australia, from northern Western Australia, the north of the Northern Territory, to northern Queensland,[2] growing on seasonally waterlogged clay flats, and occasionally on semi-saline soils.[6]
It flowers in the early wet season with fruits appearing from January to April.[6]
Indigenous names and uses
The Warumungu people of the Tennant Creek area know this tree as Manyingiila,[7] and use the smoke from burning the wood to keep away mosquitoes.[7]
Other Aboriginal language names are: Gurniny (Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru, Nungali), Yilili (MalakMalak, Matngala), Gilirr (Mangarrayi, Yangman).[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Excoecaria parvifolia Müll.Arg. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:348919-1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Excoecaria parvifolia Müll.Arg." (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/3071725.
- ↑ https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2919165
- ↑ "Excoecaria parvifolia". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/57863.
- ↑ Müller Argoviensis, J. (3 September 1864). "Neue Euphorbiaceen des Herbarium Hooker in Kew, auszugsweise vorläufig mitgetheilt aus dem manuscript für De Candolle's Prodromus". Flora: Oder Allgemeine Botanischer Zeitung 47 (28): 433. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55899.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Excoecaria parvifolia". https://eflora.nt.gov.au/factsheet?id=2023.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 , p. 90, Wikidata Q130753534
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q15390123 entry
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