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Jagera (plant)

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Sapindaceae

Order
  
Sapindales

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Jagera pseudorhus, Elattostachys, Arytera, Sarcotoechia, Diploglottis

Jagera is a genus of 4 species of forest trees known to science, constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae.

Jagera (plant) Jagera pseudorhus Noosa39s Native Plants

They grow naturally in the rainforests and associated forests of eastern Australia, New Guinea and the Moluccas.

In Australia, Jagera pseudorhus is the most well known, and commonly named foambark, due to the saponins in the bark foaming after heavy rain. Indigenous Australians use this foam as the de-oxygenator of waterway pools for temporarily suffocating their fish enabling easy catching.

Jagera (plant) Jagera pseudorhus Noosa39s Native Plants

The genus is named after Herbert de Jager, a Dutch orientalist and associate of the botanist Georg Eberhard Rumphius.

Jagera (plant) Jagera plant Wikipedia

In the last few decades various new names have been formally published, numbers of them subsequently corrected to synonyms of earlier names and a few remaining recognised as genuine new species or varieties.

Jagera (plant) Factsheet Jagera pseudorhus var pseudorhus

One recognised species in Malesia apparently remains still to be formally described.

Species

  • Jagera javanica (Blume) Blume ex Kalkman – New Guinea, Moluccas (Indonesia)
  • Jagera madida P.I.Forst., Daintree Foambark – NE. Qld endemic
  • Jagera (plant) Jagera pseudorhus SAPINDACEAE Foam bark

  • Jagera pseudorhus (A.Rich.) Radlk., Foambark, Ferntree, Pink Foambark, Ferntop, Pink Tamarind – NSW, Qld, Australia, New Guinea
  • var. integerrima S.T.Reynolds – Atherton Tableland, Qld, Australia endemic
  • var. pseudorhus – NSW, Qld, Australia, New Guinea
  • Formerly included here
  • Jagera dasyantha (Radlk.) S.T.Reynolds and J. discolor S.T.Reynolds   ⇒  Cnesmocarpon dasyantha (Radlk.) Adema – New Guinea, Australia

  • Jagera (plant) Jagera pseudorhus SAPINDACEAE Foam bark

    References

    Jagera (plant) Wikipedia