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Aceratium
Sign in to saveAceratium is a genus of about 20 species of trees and shrubs of eastern Malesia and Australasia from the family Elaeocarpaceae. In Australia, they are commonly known as carabeens. They grow naturally in rainforests, as large shrubs to understorey trees and large trees.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderOxalidales
- FamilyElaeocarpaceae
General: In New Guinea, Aceratium has been collected from both
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 185
- With media
- 154
- Family
- Elaeocarpaceae
- Collections
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- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
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- Parent taxon
- Elaeocarpaceae
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Aceratium is a genus of about 20 species of trees and shrubs of eastern Malesia and Australasia from the family Elaeocarpaceae. In Australia, they are commonly known as carabeens. They grow naturally in rainforests, as large shrubs to understorey trees and large trees.
They grow naturally in New Guinea, the centre of diversity, in New Britain, New Ireland, Vanuatu, Sulawesi, Moluccas, and in Australia, where botanists have formally described five species endemic to the Wet Tropics rainforests of northeastern Queensland.
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