Jagera (plant)

Jagera is a genus of 4 species of forest trees known to science, constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae.

Jagera
Jagera pseudorhus foliage
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Sapindaceae
Tribe:	Cupanieae
Genus:	Jagera Blume[1][2]
Type species
Jagera speciosa –illegitimate name and synonym to: Jagera javanica Blume[1][2]
Species
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They grow naturally in the rainforests and associated forests of eastern Australia, New Guinea and the Moluccas.^[3][4][5][6]

In Australia, Jagera pseudorhus is the most well known, and commonly named foambark, due to the saponins in the bark foaming after heavy rain. Indigenous Australians use this foam as the de-oxygenator of waterway pools for temporarily suffocating their fish enabling easy catching.

The genus is named after Herbert de Jager, a Dutch orientalist and associate of the botanist Georg Eberhard Rumphius.

In the last few decades various new names have been formally published, numbers of them subsequently corrected to synonyms of earlier names and a few remaining recognised as genuine new species or varieties.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]}

One recognised species in Malesia apparently remains still to be formally described.^[11]

Species

• Jagera javanica (Blume) Blume ex Kalkman – New Guinea, Moluccas (Indonesia)^[13][14]

synonyms: J. serrata (Roxb.) Radlk., J. speciosa Blume, J. macrophylla Radlk.^[14]

• Jagera madida P.I.Forst.,^[12] Daintree foambark – NE. Qld endemic^[15]/>^[16]

synonyms: J. javanica subsp. australiana Leenh,^[9] misapplication: J. serrata (Roxb.) Radlk.,^[7]

• Jagera pseudorhus (A.Rich.) Radlk., Foambark, ferntree, pink foambark, ferntop, pink tamarind – NSW, Qld, Australia, New Guinea^[17][18]
  • var. integerrima S.T.Reynolds – Atherton Tableland, Qld, Australia endemic^[19]
  • var. pseudorhus – NSW, Qld, Australia, New Guinea^{[20][21][22][23]}

Formerly included here

• Jagera dasyantha (Radlk.) S.T.Reynolds^[10] and J. discolor S.T.Reynolds^[7]   ⇒  Cnesmocarpon dasyantha (Radlk.) Adema – New Guinea, Australia^[11]

See also

• Cnesmocarpon