Malaisia

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Burny vine
Trophis scandens flower spike.jpg
Burny vine Malaisia scandens subsp. scandens flower spike and leaves
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Moraceae
Genus: Malaisia
Blanco (1837)
Species:
M. scandens
Binomial name
Malaisia scandens
(Lour.) Planch. (1855)
Synonyms [1]
  • Alchornea scandens(Lour.) Müll.Arg. (1865)
  • Caturus scandensLour. (1790)
  • Malaisia tortuosa var. scandens(Lour.) Bureau (1873), nom. superfl.
  • Trophis scandens(Lour.) Hook. & Arn. (1837)

Malaisia scandens (syn. Trophis scandens), the burny vine or crow ash, is a species of large woody vines, constituting part of the fig plant family. They grow naturally in rainforests in Australia and Malesia. [2] [3] [4] It is the only species in the genus Malaisia.

In Australia, they grow naturally from Mount Dromedary in coastal south–eastern New South Wales northwards through the eastern coastal regions to north Queensland, Cape York Peninsula and further across coastal regions of northern Australia in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. [2] [3] [5]

Botanists have recognised and described two subspecies, as follows, one endemic to Lord Howe Island offshore from New South Wales Australia and the type subspecies of mainland Australia and Malesia. [2] [3]

Burny Vine Trophis scandens subsp scandens Royal National Park.jpg
Large trunk with serrated, coppice (juvenile) leaves
Trophis scandens foliage and flowers.jpg
Flower spike and foliage
Trophis scandens form.jpg
Habit below the forest canopy in the open

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References

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