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4140.000 Canarium L.

Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand

Description of the genus

Trees evergreen, branchlet pith usually with vascular strands. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate, stipulate or ex-stipulate. Inflorescence panicles, terminal or axillary. Flowers calyx cupular or campanulate. Petals 3 imbricate below of valvate, usually exceeding the calyx. Fruit drupe, usually ellipsoid. Seeds often with cotyledons partite.

Worldwide: 75 species in tropical Africa, Asia to Pacific Islands.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

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madagascariense Engl.Z

Other sources of information about Canarium:

Our websites:

Flora of Burundi: Canarium
Flora of the DRC: Canarium
Flora of Zambia: Canarium

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Canarium
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Canarium
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Canarium
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Canarium
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Canarium
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Canarium
JSTOR Plant Science: Canarium
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Canarium
Plants of the World Online: Canarium
Tropicos: Canarium
Wikipedia: Canarium
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Canarium.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2247, retrieved 23 November 2024

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