Trochocarpa cunninghamii in bloom on Tarn Shelf Track, Mt Field National Park, Tasmania February 2020
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Clade:
Asterids
Order:
Ericales
Family:
Ericaceae
Genus:
Trochocarpa
Species:
T. cunninghamii
Binomial name
Trochocarpa cunninghamii
(DC.) W.M.Curtis[1][2]
Occurrence records from Atlas of Living Australia[3]
Synonyms[4]
Decaspora cunninghamii DC.
Trochocarpa disticha var. cunninghamii (DC.) Benth.
Trochocarpa cunninghamii is a flowering plant species of the family Ericaceae. It is commonly referred to as straggling purpleberry due to its round flattened mauve drupe fruits.[5] This woody shrub is usually found in the understorey of rainforests and subalpine forests in the Central Plateau and western Tasmania, and is endemic to Tasmania.[5]
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^Trochocarpa cunninghamii (DC.) W.M.Curtis in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset doi:10.15468/39omei accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/4010639 on 2020-02-24.
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