- Source: Erythroxylum australe
Erythroxylum australe is a shrub or small tree endemic to northern Australia. The plant is known by a variety of names including Brigalow erythroxylon shrub and dogwood (unrelated to Cornus).
The plant grows in a wide variety of habitats in subcoastal and coastal regions, ranging from dry rainforest and vine thickets to open savanna woodland.
The leaves contain 0.8% meteloidine, an alkaloid similar to cocaine. All Erythroxylaceae species are banned in NSW.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Erythroxylum
- Erythroxylum australe
- Erythroxylum
- Meteloidine
- List of Australian plant species authored by Ferdinand von Mueller
- Ao Siam National Park
- List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil
- List of Australian plant species described by Robert Brown
- University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden
- List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name
