Xylocarpus

Xylocarpus
	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
Type species
	Xylocarpus granatum;
Species
	Xylocarpus granatum; ; Xylocarpus moluccensis

Xylocarpus is a genus of plants in the mahogany family (Meliaceae). It includes two^[1] or three^[2] species of mangroves, 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.

Species[]

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	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
	(Kostel.) Mabb.	east Africa through tropical Asia to the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia and the Pacific.

References[]

^ "Xylocarpus", NPGS-GRIN database, NPGS
^ Raju, J. S. S. N. (2003). "Xylocarpus (Meliaceae): A less-known mangrove taxon of the Godavari estuary, India" (PDF). Current Science. Indian Academy of Sciences. 84 (7): 879–881.

External links[]

"Xylocarpus J.Koenig". Atlas of Living Australia.

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[1] "Xylocarpus", NPGS-GRIN database, NPGS

[2] Raju, J. S. S. N. (2003). "Xylocarpus (Meliaceae): A less-known mangrove taxon of the Godavari estuary, India" (PDF). Current Science. Indian Academy of Sciences. 84 (7): 879–881.

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