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Exocarpos

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Exocarpos
Cherry ballart (Exocarpos cupressiformis)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Santalaceae
Genus: Exocarpos
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Exocarpos is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees in the sandalwood family, Santalaceae. They are found throughout Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands.[citation needed]

They are semi-parasitic, requiring the roots of a host tree, a trait they share with many other members of the Santalaceae.[citation needed]

In Australia, they are known as ballarts, and several species are known as cherries.[citation needed]

The genus Exocarpos - first described by Jacques Labillardière when in Australia in 1791-94. Again convention dictates that the taxon is often expressed as Exocarpos Labill. 1798.[citation needed]

Labillardière reveals that on 7th of May 1792 he described the fruit and seed arrangement (with the seed outside the fruit) thus providing the name exo+carpos = Excocarpos. Here is what he actually said: “I discovered an evergreen tree, which has its nut situated, like that of acajou, upon a fleshy receptacle much larger than itself. I therefore named the new genus exocarpos.”[citation needed]

Note that Labillardière chose exocarpos, not pus.[citation needed]

The relevant journals, translated into English in 1800, can be found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL): Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse 1: 155. 1800. (Voy. Rech. Pérouse), P. 198. 07 May 1792.[1]


Within Australia, an identification key is available for New South Wales species,[2] and for Victorian species.[3]

Exocarpos species

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References

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  1. ^ Labillardière, Jacques Julien Houton de; Labillardière, Jacques Julien Houton de (1800). Voyage in search of La Pérouse : performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794 [Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse]. Vol. 1. London: John Stockdale.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  2. ^ "Genus Exocarpos". PlantNET. National Herbarium of NSW. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  3. ^ ""Key to Exocarpos", Flora of Victoria". vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  4. ^ "Exocarpos aphyllus". PlantNET. National Herbarium of NSW. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Exocarpos bidwillii". New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
  6. ^ "Exocarpos gaudichaudii A.DC. - hulumoa EXGA in the state of Hawaii". The PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
  7. ^ "Exocarpos menziesii Stauffer - Menzies' ballart EXME in the state of Hawaii". The PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
  8. ^ "Exocarpos luteolus Forbes - leafy ballart EXLU in the state of Hawaii". The PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
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