Vitex lignum-vitae

Vitex lignum-vitae
Vitex lignum-vitae in Coffs Harbour Botanic Garden
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Vitex
Species:
V. lignum-vitae
Binomial name
Vitex lignum-vitae
(A.Cunn. ex Schauer) Piep.
Synonyms
  • Premna lignum-vitae A.Cunn. ex Schauer
Lobed juvenile leaves
Vitex lignum-vitae (red fruit) and Jagera pseudorhus (brown fruit) growing beside the Tweed River, Australia

Vitex lignum-vitae, known in Australia as yellow hollywood or "lignum-vitae" (also used for other species), is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia.[1] The natural range of distribution is in dry, sub-tropical or tropical rainforest from the Richmond River, New South Wales to Cape York Peninsula at the northernmost tip of Australia. It also occurs in New Guinea.[2] Lignum vitae is Latin for "wood of life".[3]

  1. ^ B. J. Conn. "Vitex lignum-vitae, PlantNET - NSW Flora Online". Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  2. ^ Floyd, A. G. (1989). Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia (1st ed.). Port Melbourne: Elsevier Australia - Inkata Imprint, copyright Forestry Commission of New South Wales (published 1989-12-01). p. 409. ISBN 0-909605-57-2. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
  3. ^ "Lignum Vitae, The Wood Database". Retrieved 2021-05-19.