Carapa

Carapa procera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Sapindales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids II Ordo: Sapindales

Familia: Meliaceae
Subfamilia: Cedreloideae
Genus: Carapa
Species: C. akuri – C. alticola – C. amorphocarpa – C. angustifolia – C. batesii – C. dinklagei – C. gogo – C. grandiflora – C. guianensis – C. hygrophila – C. littoralis – C. llanocarti – C. longipetala – C. macrantha – C. megistocarpa – C. microcarpa – C. nicaraguensis – C. pariensis – C. parviflora – C. planadensis – C. procera – C. surinamensis – C. vasquezii – C. velutina – C. wohllebenii

Name

Carapa Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guiane 2(Suppl.): 32 (1775).

• Type species: C. guianensis Aubl.

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Persoonia Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 2: 331 (1799).
  • Racapa M.Roem., Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 1: 123 (1846).
  • Touloucouna M.Roem., Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 1: 123 (1846).
  • Zelea Ten., Atti Riunione Sci. Ital. 3: 504 (1841 publ. 1842).
  • Zurloa Ten., Atti Riunione Sci. Ital. 3: 503 (1841 publ. 1842).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa Regional: West Tropical Africa Benin, Burkina, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo. Regional: West-Central Tropical Africa Burundi, Cabinda, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Rwanda. Regional: East Tropical Africa Tanzania, Uganda. Continental: Asia-Tropical Regional: Indo-China Vietnam (introduced). Continental: Southern America Regional: Central America Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua. Regional: Caribbean Cuba, Dominican Republic, Leeward Islands, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Islands. Regional: Northern South America French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela. Regional: Western South America Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. Regional: Brazil Brazil Northeast, Brazil North. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Fusée Aublet, J.B.C. 1775. Histoire des plantes de la Guiane françoise, rangées suivant la méthode sexuelle, avec plusieurs mémoires sur différens objets intéressans, relatifs à la culture & au commerce de la Guiane françoise, & une notice des plantes de l' Isle-de-France. Tome 1. Pp. I–XXIX, 30–32, 1–621. Pierre-François Didot jeune, Londres [London], Paris. BHL. Reference page. : 32

Additional references

• Kenfack, D. 2011. A Synoptic Revision of Carapa (Meliaceae). Harvard Papers in Botany 16(2): 171–231. DOI: 10.3100/0.25.016.0201 Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Carapa in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Oct 1. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2021. Carapa. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 1 Oct 2021.
• International Plant Names Index. 2021. Carapa. Published online. Accessed: 1 Oct 2021.
• Hassler, M. 2021. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Carapa. Accessed: 1 Oct 2021.
• Hassler, M. 2021. Carapa. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Oct 1. Reference page. 
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Carapa. .

Vernacular names

中文: 楂楝

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