Biology:Mammea papuana

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Mammea papuana
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Calophyllaceae
Genus: Mammea
Species:
M. papuana
Binomial name
Mammea papuana
(Lauterb.) Kosterm.
Synonyms[2]

Ochrocarpos papuanus Lauterb.

Mammea papuana is a species of flowering plant in the Calophyllaceae family. It is a shrub or tree native to East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea in eastern New Guinea[1] and to the Solomon Islands.[2] It grows in lowland rain forest.[1]

The species was first described as Ochrocarpos papuanus by Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach in 1922. In 1956 André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans placed the species in genus Mammea as M. papuana.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5458477 entry