Carapa.org - Species

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Carapa spp. (in prep.)

The names presented below are those validated after the last revision of the genus Carapa (Kenfack 2008). This page will be updated as soon as a new species name will be published in the scientific literature.

Africa

C. augustifolia Harms (top)

C. batesii C. DC.

C. dinklagei Harms

C. grandiflora Sprague (center)

C. hygrophila Harms

C. macrantha Harms

C. parviflora Harms

C. procera C. DC. (left)

C. velutina C. DC. (right)

America

C. akuri Poncy, Forget & Kenfack

C. nicaraguensis C. DC. (right)

C. guianensis Aubl.

C. megistocarpa A.H. Gentry & Dobson

C. surinamensis Miq. Stirp. (left)

Asia

Carapa does not exist in Asia being replaced by Xylocarpus

Références

Forget, P.-M., Poncy, O., Thomas, R. S. Hammond, D. S. and Kenfack, D. A new species of Carapa (Meliaceae) from Central Guyana. Brittonia, 61 (4): 301-402. 2009.

Kenfack, D. 2008. Systematic and evolution of Carapa (Meliaceae-Swietenioideae). Ph.D. Thesis, University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Noamesi, G. K. 1958. A revision of Xylocarpae (Meliaceae). Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin.

Pennington, T. D., B. T. Styles & D. A. H. Taylor 1981. Meliaceae. Flora Neotropica 28: 1–470.

See

French Guianan e-Flora Project ; click on "specimens" then write species name in "quick search".

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