Canarium

For the snail genus, see Canarium (gastropod).

Canarium
Fruiting branch of Canarium harveyi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Burseraceae
Genus: Canarium
L. (1754)[1]
Species

About 120, see text

Synonyms[2]
  • Canariellum Engl. (1896)
  • Canariopsis Miq. (1859)
  • Colophonia Comm. ex Kunth (1824)
  • Lipara Lour. ex Gomes Mach. (1868)
  • Mehenbethene Besler ex Gaertn. (1790)
  • Nanari Adans. (1763)
  • Pimela Lour. (1790)
  • Rumphia L. (1753)
  • Sonzaya Marchand (1867)
  • Strania Noronha (1790), nom. nud.

Canarium is a genus of about 120 species of tropical and subtropical trees, in the family Burseraceae. They grow naturally across tropical Africa, south and southeast Asia, Indochina, Malesia, Australia and western Pacific Islands; including from southern Nigeria east to Madagascar, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and India; from Burma, Malaysia and Thailand through the Malay Peninsula and Vietnam to south China, Taiwan and the Philippines; through Borneo, Indonesia, Timor and New Guinea, through to the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Palau.[3]

Canarium species grow up to large evergreen trees of 40–50 m (130–160 ft) tall, and have alternately arranged, pinnate leaves.[3] They are dioecious, with male and female flowers growing on separate trees.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference IPNI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Canarium L. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Fl.Malesiana-1956 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Federman, Sarah; Donoghue, Michael J.; Daly, Douglas C.; Eaton, Deren A. R. (2018). "Reconciling species diversity in a tropical plant clade (Canarium, Burseraceae)". PLOS ONE. 13 (6): e0198882. Bibcode:2018PLoSO..1398882F. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0198882. PMC 6003679. PMID 29906281.