Parinari is a genus of plant

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 Chrysobalanaceae

Chrysobalanaceae

Chrysobalanaceae is a family of trees, shrubs and flowering plants, consisting of 17 genera and about 460 species of leptocaul that grows in the Tropics or is subtropical and common in the Americas...

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Species of genus Parinari are found in Subsaharan Africa from Senegal to Sudan and Kenya and south to Namibia and Natal; in Eastern Madagascar; from Indochina through Indonesia, New Guinea, northern Queensland, and the southwest Pacific; and in Central and South America from Costa Rica to Trinidad and southern Brazil.

Species include:

• Parinari argenteo-sericea
  Parinari argenteo-sericea
  Parinari argenteo-sericea is a species of plant in the Chrysobalanaceae family. It is endemic to Malaysia.-Sources:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  Kosterm.
  André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans
  Dr. André Joseph Guillaume Henri 'Doc' Kostermans was a botanist. He was born in Purworejo, Java, Dutch East Indies, and educated at Utrecht University, taking his doctoral degree in 1936 with a paper on Surinamese Lauraceae.He spent most of his professional life studying the plants of...
  
  
• Parinari capensis Harv. -Dwarf Mobola Plum
• Parinari costata
  Parinari costata
  Parinari costata is a species of plant in the Chrysobalanaceae family. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  (Korth.) Blume
• Parinari curatellifolia
  Parinari curatellifolia
  Parinari curatellifolia is an evergreen tropical tree of Africa, found in various kinds of deciduous woodland most frequently in poorly drained areas and inland at moderate altitudes...
  
  (Planch. ex. Benth.) - Mobola Plum
• Parinari excelsa Sab.
  Joseph Sabine
  Joseph Sabine was an English lawyer, naturalist and writer on horticulture.He was born into a prominent Anglo-Irish family in Tewin, Hertfordshire, the eldest son of Joseph Sabine. His younger brother was Sir Edward Sabine....
  
  - Guinea Plum
• Parinari nonda
  Parinari nonda
  Parinari nonda is a shrub or small tree in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It occurs in northern Australia and New Guinea. The edible fruits are harvested in the wild....
  
  F.Muell. ex Benth. -Nonda Plum