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Carapa spp.
The names (18) listed herebelow are those validated after the last revision of the genus Carapa (Kenfack 2008, 2011). 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. gogo A.Chev. nomen nudem
C. grandiflora Sprague (center)
C. hygrophila Harms
C. macrantha Harms
C. microcarpa A.Chev.
C. parviflora Harms
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C. procera C. DC. (right)
C. velutina C.DC. (left)
America
C. akuri Poncy, Forget & Kenfack sp. nov. (top)
C. alticola Kenfack sp. nov. (bottom)
C. guianensis Aubl.
C. longipetala Kenfack sp. nov.
C. nicaraguensis C. DC.
C. megistocarpa A.H. Gentry & Dobson
C. surinamensis Miq. Stirp.
C. vasquezii Kenfack sp. nov.
Asia
Carapa does not exist in Asia being replaced by Xylocarpus
References
Forget, P.-M., Poncy, O., Thomas, R. S. Hammond, D. S. and Kenfack, D. (2009) A new species of Carapa (Meliaceae) from Central Guyana. Brittonia, 61 (4), 301-402.
Kenfack, D. (2008) Systematic and evolution of Carapa (Meliaceae-Swietenioideae). Ph.D. Thesis, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Kenfack, D. (2011a) Carapa vasquezii (Meliaceae), a new species from western Amazonia. Brittonia 63 (1) 7-10.
Kenfack, D. (2011b) Resurrection in Carapa (Meliaceae): a reassessment of morphological variation and species boundaries using multivariate methods in a phylogenetic context. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 165, 186-221.
Kenfack D. & Peréz Á.J. (2011) Two new species of Carapa (Meliaceae) from Western Ecuador. Systematic Botany, 36, 124-128.
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.
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French Guianan e-Flora Project ; click on "specimens" then write species name in "quick search".