''Garuga pinnata'' is a

deciduous In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed Leaf, leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, aft ...

tree species from the 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 ...

. 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 The Catalogue of Life (CoL) is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxono ...

Description and ecology

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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 Tissue (biology), tissues of plants. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to benig ...

s may occur on ''G. pinnata'' caused by '' Phacopteron lentiginosum'' (

Psylloidea Psylloidea is a Taxonomic rank, superfamily of Hemiptera, true bugs, including the jumping plant louse, jumping plant lice and others which have recently been classified as distinct families. Though the group first appeared during the Early Jura ...

: Phacopteronidae), whose populations may be regulated by

parasitoids In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host (biology), host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionarily stable str ...

References

Roxburgh W (1819) In: ''Hort. Bengal'' 33; ''Pl. Corom.'' iii. 5. t. 208; ''Fl. Ind.'' ii. 400.

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* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q15226345 pinnata Plants described in 1814 Trees of China Trees of the Indian subcontinent Trees of Indo-China