| Xylocarpus | |
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| Cannonball mangrove in the Daintree region of Queensland, Australia. | |
Scientific 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 | |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 2 "Xylocarpus J.Koenig". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2023. Retrieved November 11, 2023.
- ↑ 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.
External links
- "Xylocarpus J.Koenig". Atlas of Living Australia.
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