Garuga floribunda
Garuga floribunda, commonly known as garuga, is a plant in the frankincense and myrrh family Burseraceae, with a broad distribution from northeastern India through southeast Asia and northern Australia to the southwestern Pacific. It is a tree up to  tall and a trunk diameter up to . The compound leaves are about  long, arranged spirally and clustered near the tips of the branches. The leaflets are odd in number, with dentate margins, and measure up to  long by  wide.

The inflorescence is a branched panicle carrying numerous flowers, each about  long with five sepals and five white to yellow petals. There are ten stamens and a single style. The fruit is a drupe up to  long and  wide, green to black, containing a jelly-like flesh and up to five seeds.

Taxonomy
This species was first described in 1834 by the French botanist Joseph Decaisne, and published in the journal Nouvelles Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle.

Distribution and habitat
The tree is found from Bangladesh in northeastern India through to south and central China (including the island of Hainan), and south to Laos, Thailand, all of Malesia except Sumatra, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, and the Australian states of Western Australia and Queensland. It inhabits drier rainforest types such as monsoon forest and gallery forest up to about  altitude.

Conservation
, this species has been assessed to be of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as well as under the Queensland Government's Nature Conservation Act.

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References

External links

 View a map of herbarium collections of this species at the GBIF
 View observations of this species on iNaturalist
 View images of this species on Flickriver.com

floribunda
Category:Flora of East Himalaya
Category:Flora of Indo-China
Category:Flora of China
Category:Flora of Malesia
Category:Flora of Samoa
Category:Flora of Tonga
Category:Flora of Vanuatu
Category:Flora of Western Australia
Category:Flora of Queensland
Category:Taxa named by Joseph Decaisne
Category:Plants described in 1834