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Beyeria leschenaultii
Also called Pale Turpentine Bush
Beyeria lechenaultii (common name - pale turpentine bush) is a species of dioecious (rarely monoecious) flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, that is endemic to Australia.
It was first described in 1817 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle as Hemistemma lechenaultii, using a specimen collected on St Francis Island, South Australia but in 1866 Henri Ernest Baillon assigned the species to the genus, Beyeria. The specific epithet, lechenaultii, honours the French botanist, Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour.
The Noongar people of southwest Western Australia drank decoctions of the leaves to treat tuberculosis and fevers.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Beyeria lechenaultii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
