Erythroxylum ecarinatum

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Erythroxylum ecarinatum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Erythroxylaceae
Genus: Erythroxylum
Species:
E. ecarinatum
Binomial name
Erythroxylum ecarinatum
Hochr.

Erythroxylum ecarinatuma is a Southwest Pacific and Australian species of Erythroxylum .

It is an Australian rainforest timber tree locally called "brown plum".

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