''Garuga pinnata''
is a
deciduous
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tree species from the 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 ...
.
It occurs in Asia: from the Indian sub-continent, southern China and Indo-China; in Vietnam it may be called ''dầu heo''. No subspecies are listed in the
Catalogue of Life
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.
Description and ecology
File:Garuga_pinnata_(Kakad)_in_Kinnarsani_WS,_AP_W_IMG_5726.jpg, Flowers
File:Garuga_pinnata_(Kakad)_in_Kinnarsani_WS,_AP_W2_IMG_5733.jpg, Fruit
File:Garuga_pinnata_(Kakad)_in_Kinnarsani_WS,_AP_W_IMG_5735.jpg, Bark
Plant gall
Galls (from the Latin , 'oak-apple') or ''cecidia'' (from the Greek , anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to be ...
s may occur on ''G. pinnata'' caused by ''
Phacopteron lentiginosum'' (
), whose populations may be regulated by
parasitoids
In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionary strategies within parasi ...
.
References
[Roxburgh W (1819) In: ''Hort. Bengal'' 33; ''Pl. Corom.'' iii. 5. t. 208; ''Fl. Ind.'' ii. 400.]
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Burseraceae
Plants described in 1814
Trees of China
Trees of the Indian subcontinent
Trees of Indo-China