Sugarwood | |
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Myoporum platycarpum growing near Cocklebiddy in the Nuytsland Nature Reserve | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
Genus: | Myoporum |
Species: | M. platycarpum
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Binomial name | |
Myoporum platycarpum | |
Synonyms | |
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Myoporum platycarpum, known by several common names including sugarwood, false sandalwood and ngural[1] is a plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae. It is rounded with bright green foliage as a young shrub and roughly fissured, dark grey bark when mature. Sugarwood is endemic to the southern half of continental Australia.