Just how the Erythroxylum shrub has been able to mutate genes is unclear. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Cloning Botanic Wonder Amazes Australian Scientists] Reference
About 7,000 years ago a single Erythroxylum shrub in the Northern Territory became isolated from its cousins further east on Cape York in Queensland when melting glaciers created the Gulf of Carpentaria. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Cloning Botanic Wonder Amazes Australian Scientists] Reference
Commonly found are Lonchocarpus pentaphyllus, Pisonia fragrans, Haematoxylon campechianum, Myrsia atrifolia, Chrysophyllum argenteum, Erythroxylum ovatum and two types of cactus (Opuntia dilenii, Pilosocereus royeni). From Wordnik.com. [Windward Islands xeric scrub] Reference
The following species are also restricted to this center (and endemic or near-endemic to this ecoregion): Acacia fleckii, Alchornea occidentalis, Baphia massaiensis subsp. obovata, Brachystegia bakerana, Dialium engleranum, Erythroxylum zambesiacum, Grewia schintzii, Hannoa chlorantha, and Lonchocarpus nelsii. From Wordnik.com. [Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands] Reference
Catuaba Bark (Erythroxylum catuaba). From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
The thorn forest is dense, and includes Bourreria cumanensis, Caesalpinia conaria, Capparis coccolobifolia, C. brasiletto, Cereus hexagonus, Cercidium praecox, Chloroleucon mangense, Coccoloba ramosissima, Erythroxylum sp. From Wordnik.com. [La Costa xeric shrublands] Reference
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