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Psychotria loniceroides
Also called Mapoon bush
Psychotria loniceroides, commonly known as hairy psychotria or Mapoon bush, is a species of plant in the coffee family Rubiaceae native to northern and eastern Australia. It is a shrub of drier rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests, and the fruit are eaten by birds. It was first described in 1830.
This species is present along the entire east coast of Australia, from near Bega in south eastern New South Wales to islands of the Torres Strait, Queensland. There is also a disjunct population in the Northern Territory. It grows as an understorey shrub in drier types of rainforest (such as monsoon forest and vine thickets), and in wet sclerophyll forests which form the transition from rainforest to eucalypt and other dry forests. In northern Australia, it is found at altitudes from sea level to 1,100 m (3,600 ft).
Ripe fruit are reported to be edible to humans, although they may irritate the throat. In his book Plants of Tropical North Queensland, John Beasley simply states, in reference to this plant, that "Some Psycotrias are poisonous."
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Psychotria loniceroides 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.
