Buchanania
Encyclopedia
Buchanania is a genus of plant
in family Anacardiaceae
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Species
include:
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
in family Anacardiaceae
Anacardiaceae
Anacardiaceae are a family of flowering plants bearing fruits that are drupes and in some cases producing urushiol, an irritant. Anacardiaceae include numerous genera with several of economic importance. Notable plants in this family include cashew , mango, poison ivy, sumac, smoke tree, and marula...
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Species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
include:
- Buchanania amboinensis Miq. – native to Papua New Guinea
- Buchanania arborescensBuchanania arborescensBuchanania arborescens, Little gooseberry tree, is a small slender tree native monsoon forests of northern Australia, south-east Asia, and the Solomon Islands....
(Blume) Blume – Satinwood or Lightwood, native to TaiwanTaiwanTaiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, CambodiaCambodiaCambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...
, IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, IndonesiaIndonesiaIndonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
, LaosLaosLaos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...
, MyanmarMyanmarBurma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
, the PhilippinesPhilippinesThe Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
, ThailandThailandThailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, VietnamVietnamVietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
, Papua New GuineaPapua New GuineaPapua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
the Solomon IslandsSolomon IslandsSolomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...
and AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. - Buchanania barberiBuchanania barberiBuchanania barberi is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is endemic to India. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 20 August 2007....
- Buchanania heterophylla K.Schum. – native to Papua New Guinea
- Buchanania lanceolataBuchanania lanceolataBuchanania lanceolata is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is endemic to India.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 20 August 2007....
- Buchanania lanzan Spreng. – chirauli-nut, native to India and Malaysia
- Buchanania latifolia Roxb. – chirauli-nut, native to China, India, Nepal, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
- Buchanania macrocarpa Lauterb. – native to Papua New Guinea
- Buchanania mangoides F.Muell. – native to Australia
- Buchanania microphylla Engler – native to China and the Philippines
- Buchanania obovataBuchanania obovataBuchananis obovata, or Green Plum, is a small to medium sized understorey tree in woodland native to northern Australia.Leaves are smooth, thick, leathery, broadly oblong, 5–25 cm long and 1.5–10 cm wide. Flowers are small, cream-coloured and 0.5 cm across...
Engl. – Green Plum, native to Australia - Buchanania papuana C.T.White – native to Papua New Guinea
- Buchanania platyneuraBuchanania platyneuraBuchanania platyneura is a species of flowering plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is endemic to India and has been classified as "vulnerable".-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 20 August 2007....
- Buchanania solomonensis Merr. & L.M.Perry – native to Papua New Guinea
- Buchanania versteeghii Merr. & L.M.Perry – native to Papua New Guinea
- Buchanania vitiensis Engl.
- Buchanania yunnanensis C. Y. Wu native to China