A genus of Australian plants with small tuberous roots, sometimes used as a food source by Indigenous peoples.
From a Dharug (Australian Aboriginal language) word referring to the plant; adopted into English botanical nomenclature in the 19th century.
Deringa is a perfect example of how colonization brought Indigenous plant knowledge into Western science—the plant was used for thousands of years before Europeans gave it a Latin name!
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