Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Macaranga tanarius (L.) Müll.Arg.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Macaranga tanarius
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
(L.) Müll.Arg.
Common names
Elephant's Ear, Macaranga, Parasol Leaf Tree, bingabing, blush macaranga, david's-heart, hairy-mahogany, heartleaf, nasturtium-tree, parasol-leaf-tree
Names in other languages (10)Binunga, Mara, makaranga trieslovinová, Макаранга дубильная, เม็ก, オオバキ, オオバギ, 橙桐, 流血樹, 血桐
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Malpighiales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Macaranga
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
tanarius
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Macaranga tanarius
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-13 11:06.
Photo of Macaranga tanarius (L.) Müll.Arg.
Photo: 胡正恆(Jackson Hu) · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Macaranga tanarius (L.) Müll.Arg.
Photo: 五色鳥 · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Macaranga tanarius (L.) Müll.Arg.
Photo: Stuart · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Macaranga tanarius (L.) Müll.Arg.
Photo: 趙珮珽 · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Macaranga tanarius (L.) Müll.Arg.
Photo: Lucas Christofides · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Macaranga tanarius (L.) Müll.Arg.
Photo: Martin Hannan-Jones · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-13 11:06.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 5 of 5 is eaten by × is a host of × interacts with × is dispersed by × has as a vector ×

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is eaten by 81 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Black-naped Oriole Oriolus chinensis Oriolidae is eaten by 3 not compared
Yellow-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus goiavier Pycnonotidae is eaten by 2 not compared
Puff-throated Bulbul Alophoixus pallidus Pycnonotidae is eaten by 2 not compared
Stripe-headed Rhabdornis Rhabdornis mystacalis Rhabdornithidae is eaten by 2 not compared
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is a host of 52 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Meliola macarangae is a host of 7 no location
Cercospora macarangae is a host of 7 not compared
Ceramothyrium biseptatum Chaetothyriaceae is a host of 5 not compared
Pseudocercospora macarangae Mycosphaerellaceae is a host of 4 no location
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interacts with 15 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
BOLD:AEB9911 Miridae interacts with 2 no location
Ryukyu Flying Fox Pteropus dasymallus Pteropodidae interacts with 2 no location
Metanastria gemella Lasiocampidae interacts with 2 not compared
Hexagonia tenuis interacts with 1 no location
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is dispersed by 10 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Black-naped Oriole Oriolus chinensis Oriolidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Grey-capped Emerald Dove Chalcophaps indica Columbidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Philippine Bulbul Hypsipetes philippinus Pycnonotidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
White-eared Brown-dove Phapitreron leucotis Columbidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
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has as a vector 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
birds Aves has as a vector 2 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at class level.
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Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.