Biology:Xylocarpus
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Short description: Genus of flowering plants
| Xylocarpus | |
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| Cannonball mangrove in the Daintree region of Queensland, Australia. | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
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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 |
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Xylocarpus granatum J. Koenig | Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique to India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, northern Australia and Papua New Guinea |
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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Xylocarpus J.Koenig". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2023. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26860-1.
- ↑ 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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282438068.
External links
- "Xylocarpus J.Koenig". Atlas of Living Australia. https://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2895512.
Wikidata ☰ Q1932926 entry
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