''Aleurites rockinghamensis'', the candlenut, is a
flowering tree in the
spurge family,
Euphorbiaceae found in northeastern Australia. It was first
formally described and named by French botanist
Henri Ernest Baillon as a
variety of ''
Aleurites moluccanus'', as ''Aleurites moluccanus'' var. ''rockinghamensis'' in 1866. The Australian botanist
Paul Irwin Forster promoted it to distinct species status in 1996. The
type specimen was collected in
Rockingham Bay
Rockingham Bay is a bay in Far North Queensland, Australia.
The bay opens onto the Coral Sea, part of the South Pacific Ocean. Adjacent to the bay is the Girramay National Park, south of which is the town of Cardwell. Goold Island is a smal ...
,
Queensland. It occurs in Australia and
Papua New Guinea.
References
Aleuritideae
Flora of Queensland
Flora of Papua New Guinea
Plants described in 1866
Taxa named by Henri Ernest Baillon
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