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Mischocarpus
Sign in to saveMischocarpus is a genus of about nineteen species of trees known to science, constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae. They grow naturally from Australia and New Guinea, though Malesia as far north as the Philippines, through SE. Asia, Indo-China and S. China, to India at their farthest west. The eleven Australian species known to science grow naturally in the rainforests of the eastern coastal zone of New South Wales and Queensland, from Newcastle northwards through to north-eastern Queensland and Cape York Peninsula.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderSapindales
- FamilySapindaceae
General: Mischocarpus can be recognised by the leaflets being
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 91
- With media
- 79
- Family
- Sapindaceae
- Collections
- MICH, A, GH, VT
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Indonesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Sapindaceae
- Image
- Mischocarpus pyriformis leaves.jpg
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- Mischocarpus
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- Commons category
- Mischocarpus
- topic's main category
- Category:Mischocarpus
- taxon common name
- 柄果木属
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Naming and classification
- Species
- References
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Mischocarpus is a genus of about nineteen species of trees known to science, constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae. They grow naturally from Australia and New Guinea, though Malesia as far north as the Philippines, through SE. Asia, Indo-China and S. China, to India at their farthest west. The eleven Australian species known to science grow naturally in the rainforests of the eastern coastal zone of New South Wales and Queensland, from Newcastle northwards through to north-eastern Queensland and Cape York Peninsula.
==Naming and classification== In 1825 Carl L. Blume first formally published this genus name and its type species M. sundaicus.
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