Anbinik
Allosyncarpia ternata
Family Myrtaceae
Monotypic Arnhem Land escarpment endemic
About
A spreading, shade-giving tree up to 18 m tall that dominates fire-protected monsoon forest pockets in sandstone gorges along the western Arnhem Land escarpment. It is the sole species in its genus and does not occur naturally anywhere else on Earth.
How to spot it
Grey, fibrous bark; stiff narrowly ovate to elliptic leaves up to 11 cm long arranged in whorls of three. Found sheltering in sandstone gorges and gullies protected from wildfire, often forming closed-canopy stands.
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Kakadu National Park — The Top End — Kakadu, Litchfield & Darwin, NT hikes
Source: Wikipedia: Allosyncarpia
Ruth Palsson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons