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Sersalisia sericea

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sersalisia sericea, also known as Wild Prune, Mangarr, and Mongo is a species of shrubs or small trees, of the plant family Sapotaceae They grow naturally in monsoon forest, littoral rainforest and occasionally in more open forest types across Northern Australia. The Kunwinjku people of Western Arnhem Land call the plant and fruit "Mandangnud". As well as being a bush food, the seeds are occasionally used in seed jewellery for sale to tourists in the region.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia

Predators

Ceroplastes rubens (pink wax scale)[2]

External References

Citations

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1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0