Xylocarpus

Xylocarpus
Cannonball mangrove in the Daintree region of Queensland, Australia.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Meliaceae
Subfamily: Cedreloideae
Genus: Xylocarpus
J.Koenig[1]
Type species
Xylocarpus granatum
Species

Xylocarpus is a genus of plants in the mahogany family (Meliaceae). It includes 3 species of mangroves, [1][2] native to coastal mangrove forests of the Western and Central Indo-Pacific, from eastern Africa to Tonga.

Xylocarpus is the only mangrove genus in family Meliaceae.

Species

Image Scientific name Distribution
Xylocarpus granatum J. Koenig Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique to India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, northern Australia and Papua New Guinea
Xylocarpus moluccensis (Lam.) M. Roem. Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh through Mainland Southeast Asia and Malesia to tropical Australia
Xylocarpus rumphii (Kostel.) Mabb. east Africa through tropical Asia to the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia and the Pacific.

References

  1. ^ a b "Xylocarpus J.Koenig". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2023. Retrieved November 11, 2023.
  2. ^ Ragavan, P.; Saxena, Alok; Jayaraj, R.S.C.; Ravichandran, K.; Mohan, P.M.; Saxena, Mani (2015). "Taxonomy and distribution of little known species of the genus Xylocarpus (Meliaceae) in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India". Botanica Marina. 58 (5): 415–422. doi:10.1515/bot-2015-0002. S2CID 89069913.

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