''Canarium australasicum'', commonly named mango bark, brown cudgerie or parsnip wood, is a species of rainforest trees, of the plant family

Burseraceae The Burseraceae are a moderate-sized family of 17-19 genera and about 540 species of woody flowering plants. The actual numbers given in taxonomic sources differ according to taxonomic revision at the time of writing. The Burseraceae are also ...

. They are

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to Australia, in eastern

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and far northeastern

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. These trees earliest formally published species name was ''Bursera australasica'' in 1892 by Frederick M. Bailey, Queensland colonial botanist from 1881 to 1915. In 1913 Bailey subsequently recognised them as the

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

and species name ''Canarium australasicum'', in his publication ''Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants'', which recorded a precious selection of proper Aboriginal language names for this and many more species names, but missed formally publishing this new name combination. In 1952 this name combination was formally published by Pieter W. Leenhouts.

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* australasicum Flora of Queensland Flora of New South Wales Sapindales of Australia {{Sapindales-stub