| Allosyncarpia ternata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Allosyncarpia S.T.Blake |
| Species: | A. ternata |
| Binomial name | |
| Allosyncarpia ternata S.T.Blake |
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Allosyncarpia ternata, commonly known as An-binik, is a species of rainforest tree in the botanical family Myrtaceae. It is a large, spreading, shady tree, and the only species in the genus Allosyncarpia. It is endemic to the Northern Territory of Australia where it is found in sandstone gorges along creeks emerging from Arnhem Land. It was described in 1981 by Stanley Blake of the Queensland Herbarium.[1]
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The tree dominates the closed monsoon rainforest communities along the sandstone escarpment of the western Arnhem Land Plateau. The distribution of the species appears to be limited to areas not subject to wildfire.[2]
Allosyncarpia dominated rainforest is an important vegetation community along the floristic boundary between the patches of monsoon forest that are sheltered from wildfire, and the fire-tolerant, eucalypt dominated, tropical savannas.[2]