Phaleria
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| Phaleria | |
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| Phaleria capitata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Thymelaeaceae |
| Subfamily: | Thymelaeoideae |
| Genus: | Phaleria Jack[1] |
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Phaleria is flowering plant genus of about 25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae, which range from Sri Lanka to Malesia, Papuasia, northern and eastern Australia, and islands of the western Pacific.[2]
Phaleria macrocarpa is known to produce agarwood.[3] Phaleria nisidai, locally known in Palau as delal a kar, 'the mother of medicines', is used as a panacea by Palauans.[4]