Gymnostoma papuanum
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| Gymnostoma papuanum | |
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| Planted specimen at Cairns Botanic Gardens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fagales |
| Family: | Casuarinaceae |
| Genus: | Gymnostoma |
| Species: | G. papuanum |
| Binomial name | |
| Gymnostoma papuanum | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Casuarina papuana S.Moore | |
Gymnostoma papuanum is a species of plants in the family Casuarinaceae endemic to New Guinea. It was first described in 1923 by English botanist Spencer Le Marchant Moore as Casuarina papuanum, and moved to the genus Gymnostoma in 1982 by Australian botanist Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson. In 2018 the International Union for Conservation of Nature assessed the species as Least Concern.[3]
