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Exocarpos aphyllus
Exocarpos aphyllus commonly known as leafless ballart,or chuk, chukk, dtulya and merrinby Noongar people, is a flowering plant in the family Santalaceae. It is a much-branched perennial with small, yellow-green flowers and is endemic to Australia.
Leafless ballart grows in a variety of habitats including woodland, rocky and clay loam in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia.
Noongar (south-west Western Australian Indigenous Australians) boiled the stems in water to make decoctions for internal use to treat colds, and externally to treat sores. The mixture was also used to make poultices to be applied to the chest to treat "wasting diseases".
Exocarpos bidwillii · Cherry Ballart · Hulumoa · Exocarpos homalocladus · Exocarpos humifusus · Broad leaved cherry · Exocarpos longifolius · Leafy ballart · Menzies' ballart · Broom Ballart · Pale Fruit Ballart · Coast Ballart
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Exocarpos aphyllus 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.
