Aleurites rockinghamensis

Candlenut
A. rockinghamensis flowers and fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Genus:	Aleurites
Species:	A. rockinghamensis
Binomial name
Aleurites rockinghamensis (Baill.) P.I.Forst.

Aleurites rockinghamensis, the candlenut, is a flowering tree in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae found in northeastern Australia. ^[1] It was first formally described and named by French botanist Henri Ernest Baillon as a variety of Aleurites moluccanus , as Aleurites moluccanus var. rockinghamensis in 1866. The Australian botanist Paul Irwin Forster promoted it to distinct species status in 1996. The type specimen was collected in Rockingham Bay, Queensland. It occurs in Australia and Papua New Guinea. ^[2]

References

1. "Aleurites rockinghamensis (Baill.) P.I.Forst". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
2. Forster, Paul I. (1996). "A taxonomic revision of Aleurites J.R. Forst. & G.Forst. (Euphorbiaceae) in Australia and New Guinea". Muelleria. 9: 8.