''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 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 know ...
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[ They are ]endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found 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 found els ...
to Australia, in eastern Queensland
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, established_title = Before federation
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and far northeastern New South Wales
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, established_title = Before federation
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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
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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
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