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Triumfetta rhomboidea

Triumfetta rhomboidea
Triumfetta rhomboidea at Kadavoor.jpg
Flowering plant in Kerala, India.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Grewioideae
Genus: Triumfetta
Species: T. rhomboidea
Binomial name
Triumfetta rhomboidea
Jacq.

Triumfetta rhomboidea, commonly known as diamond burbark or Chinese bur, is a shrub that is extensively naturalised in tropical regions.

Its bark--sometimes called burbark--makes a kind of Jute.

The taxon was first formally described in 1760 by botanist Nikolaus von Jacquin.


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