''Canarium australianum'' is a species of trees, native to
Australia and
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
, of the plant family
Burseraceae
The Burseraceae are a moderate-sized family of 17-19 genera and about 540 species of flowering plants. The actual numbers differ according to the time period in which a given source is written describing this family. The Burseraceae are also kno ...
.
[ Common names include mango bark, scrub turpentine, carrot wood, parsnip wood, Melville Island white beech and brown cudgerie.][
Three varieties are recognised in the ]Australian Plant Census The Australian Plant Census (APC) provides an online interface to currently accepted, published, scientific names of the vascular flora of Australia, as one of the output interfaces of the national government Integrated Biodiversity Information Syst ...
:[
*''C. australianum'' F.Muell. var. ''australianum''
*''C. australianum'' var. ''glabrum'' Leenh. — styptic tree, ''jalgir'' (]Bardi language
Bardi (also Baardi, Baard) is an endangered Australian Aboriginal language in the Nyulnyulan family, mutually intelligible with Jawi and possibly other dialects. It is spoken by the Bardi people at the tip of the Dampier peninsula and neighbo ...
) — type specimen from Bickerton Island
Bickerton Island is 13 km west of Groote Eylandt and 8 km east of the mouth of Blue Mud Bay in eastern Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is about 21 by 21 kilometres in size, with deep bays and indentations, and ...
in the Gulf of Carpentaria
*''C. australianum'' var. ''velutinum'' Hewson —''jalgir'' (Bardi language) — type specimen from Cape Domett
Cape Domett is at the eastern side of the mouth of the Cambridge Gulf in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
It is opposite Cape Dussejour, which lies to the north west of Cape Domett, with Lacrosse Island
Lacrosse Island is an islan ...
, north of Kununurra, Western Australia
Kununurra is a town in far northern Western Australia located at the eastern extremity of the Kimberley approximately from the border with the Northern Territory. Kununurra was initiated to service the Ord River Irrigation Scheme.
Kununurr ...
In Australia trees of all three varieties grow naturally widespread across northern regions, from sea level up to about altitude. In particular, growing in the Kimberley region of Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
, the Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
, in north-eastern Queensland
)
, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, establishe ...
in the Wet Tropics region, further southwards from there as far as about Airlie Beach
Airlie Beach is a coastal locality in the Whitsunday Region of Queensland, Australia. In the , Airlie Beach had a population of 1,208 people.
Geography
Airlie Beach is one of many departure points for the Great Barrier Reef. Cruise ships visi ...
and further north in Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest unspoiled wilderness in northern Australia.Mittermeier, R.E. et al. (2002). Wilderness: Earth’s last wild places. Mexico City: Agrupació ...
and the Torres Strait Islands
The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea. They span an area of , but their total land ...
.[
Full grown trees may grow up to about tall.][
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References
External links
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Natural Assets Database: ''Canarium australianum''
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Australianum
Sapindales of Australia
Rosids of Western Australia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Flora of Queensland
Flora of Papua New Guinea
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller
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