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A fact from Epicharis parasitica appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 March 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Dysoxylum parasiticum was named in the mistaken belief that it was parasitic?
G’day guys, i’m in Dysoxylum parasiticum country here in nth Qld, seeing the big trees everyday i go into the forest. I’ll try to get a good enough photograph, though i have not seen them flowering nor fruiting at the moment. --Macropneuma23:48, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Coopers (2004) Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest (example) quotation, for north east Queensland flowering and fruiting times, if appropriate, and for editing more generally:
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Dysoxylum parasiticum
(Osbeck) Kosterm.
YELLOW MAHOGANY
parasiticum comes from parasitus (parasite); this perpetuates an error made by a student of Linnaeus, who mistakenly thought that the cauliflorous [correctly: cauline] flowers and fruit were a parasitic growth on the tree.
Other names: D. schiffneri
Tree to 27 m, may be buttressed.
Leaves compound, alternate; rachis + petiole 170–1400 mm long, pulvinus at base [actually swollen petiole base, strictly not a pulvinis –cf. RFK], with rusty lenticels; leaflets 13–20, opposite or alternate, 40–250 x 30–80 mm, terminal leaflet may be present; upper-side hairy; underside densely hairy or glabrous except for domatia as foveoles with or without hairs; lateral petiolules 2–8 mm long.
Inflorescence a ramiflorous or cauliflorous raceme or fascicle.
Flower petals 3 or 4, white or cream, 15–20 mm long; calyx white or cream; fragrant. May–Sep.
Fruit a capsule, brown or orange–brown, 20–40 mm long, up to 40 mm wide, 1–4-valved, warty, white inside; seeds 1–4, brown, about 18 mm long, aril red or orange–brown with a pithy white base. Nov.–Feb.
Distribution rainforest from Cape York to Ingham, altitude 0–1000 m. Also New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Malesia & Taiwan.
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— needless to say i recommend everyone invests in buying this, major work of art, botanical book, full of award winning William T. Cooper’s magnificent, precisely accurate, paintings of the fruits of 1,600 rainforest plant species, amongst the ca. 2,500 species text full descriptions, and also numerous animal paintings illustrations too.--Macropneuma06:58, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
