Taxon:
Alphitonia excelsa (A. Cunn. ex Fenzl) Reissek ex Benth.
Summary
Place of publication:
Fl. austral. 1:414. 1863
Comment:
although Endlicher listed Colubrina excelsa under Alphitonia in 1840, he did not validly publish the combination A. excelsa under Shenzhen ICN 35.2
Verified:
11/15/2019
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Alphitonia+excelsa&quantity=1
- Hamann, A. & E. Curio. 1999. Interactions among frugivores and fleshy fruit trees in an Philippine submontane rainforest. Conservation Biol. 13:766-773.
- Harden, G. J., ed. 1990-1993. Flora of New South Wales.
- Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
- Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). URL: http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
- Johnston, M. C. 1971. Revision of Colubrina (Rhamnaceae). Brittonia 23:50.
- Kellermann, J. 2011. Review of Rhamnaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
- Stanley, T. D. & E. M. Ross. 1983-1989. Flora of south-eastern Queensland.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). URL: http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2 Note: = Alphitonia incana (Roxb.) Teijsm. & Binn. ex Kurz
Common names
English
Cooper's-wood – leather-jacket – mountain-ash – pink-almond – red tweedie – red-almond – red-ash – soaptree – whiteleaf – white-myrtle –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | Kalimantan | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | Lesser Sunda Islands | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | Maluku | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | Sulawesi | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | Sabah | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | Sarawak | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Philippines | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Papuasia | Indonesia | Papua Barat | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Papuasia | Papua New Guinea | | |
1 | Native | Australasia | Australia | Australia | New South Wales | e. |
1 | Native | Australasia | Australia | Australia | Northern Territory | n. |
1 | Native | Australasia | Australia | Australia | Queensland | |
1 | Native | Australasia | Australia | Australia | Western Australia | n. |
Native
Asia-Tropical
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PAPUASIA:
Indonesia [Papua Barat], Papua New Guinea
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MALESIA:
Indonesia [Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku], Malaysia [Sabah, Sarawak], Philippines
Australasia
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AUSTRALIA:
Australia [New South Wales (e.), Queensland, Western Australia (n.), Northern Territory (n.)]
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Animal food | forage | for wild birds; fide Kellermann, pers. comm. | Hamann, A. & E. Curio. 1999. Interactions among frugivores and fleshy fruit trees in an Philippine submontane rainforest. Conservation Biol. 13:766-773. |
Vertebrate poisons | fish | | Kellermann, J. 2011. Review of Rhamnaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm. |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia |