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.
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 | |
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. |