Carapa procera
Botanical illustration
Ripe nut
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Meliaceae
Genus: Carapa
Species:
C. procera
Binomial name
Carapa procera
Synonyms[2]
List
    • Carapa guineensis Sweet
    • Carapa gummiflua C.DC.
    • Carapa guyanensis Oliv.
    • Carapa touloucouna Guill. & Perr.
    • Granatum procerum (DC.) Kuntze
    • Racapa procera M.Roem.
    • Touloucouna gigantea M.Roem.
    • Trichilia procera Forsyth ex DC.
    • Xylocarpus procerus (DC.) Steud.
    • Xylocarpus touloucouna (Guill. & Perr.) Steud.
    • Zelea splendens Ten.
    • Zurloa insignis Ten.
    • Zurloa splendens (Ten.) Ten.

Carapa procera, called African crabwood, is a species of tree in the genus Carapa, native to the West African tropics and to the Amazon rainforest, and introduced to Vietnam.[2] Some authorities have split off the South American population into its own species, Carapa surinamensis.[3] The nuts are intensively collected in the wild for their oil, a non-timber forest product.[4] In tropical Africa, the species is increasingly threatened.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Prodr. 1: 626 (1824)
  2. 1 2 "Carapa procera DC". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  3. ↑ "Carapa surinamensis Miq". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  4. ↑ Forget, Pierre-Michel; Jansen, Patrick A. (2007). "Hunting Increases Dispersal Limitation in the Tree Carapa procera, a Nontimber Forest Product". Conservation Biology. 21 (1): 106–113. Bibcode:2007ConBi..21..106F. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00590.x. PMID 17298516. S2CID 6254866.
  5. ↑ Fanta Reine Sheirita Tiétiambou; Kolawolé Valère Salako; Jésukpégo Roméo Tohoun; Amadé Ouédraogo (23 July 2020). "Local preferences for three indigenous oil-seed plants and attitudes towards their conservation in the Kénédougou province of Burkina Faso, West-Africa". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 16 (1): 43. doi:10.1186/S13002-020-00393-1. ISSN 1746-4269. PMC 7376732. PMID 32703227. Wikidata Q97679959. (erratum)
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