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Genus of flowering plants
Buchanania is a genus of plants in the mango and cashew family
Anacardiaceae , native to areas from India to southern China, and southwards to northern Australia and the western Pacific.
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As of 21 April 2024
[update] ,
Plants of the World Online recognises 26 species in the genus,
[2] as follows:
Buchanania abrahamiana
E.S.S.Kumar &
Shareef – India
Buchanania amboinensis
Miq. –
Maluku Islands , New Guinea, Solomon Islands
Buchanania arborescens (Blume) Blume – India, Taiwan, tropical Asia, northern Australia, western Pacific
Buchanania attenuata
A.C.Sm. –
Santa Cruz Islands , Fiji
Buchanania axillaris (
Desr. )
Ramamoorthy – India, Sri Lanka
Buchanania barberi
Gamble – India
Buchanania engleriana
Volkens – Caroline Islands
Buchanania evrardii
Tardieu – Cambodia
Buchanania ferruginea
Engl. – India
Buchanania glabra
Wall. ex Engl. – India,
Indo-China
Buchanania insignis Blume – Borneo, Philippines
Buchanania lanceolata
Wight – southwestern India, Myanmar
Buchanania lancifolia
Roxb. – Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Myanmar
Buchanania lanzan Spreng. –
Indian subcontinent , southern China, Indo-China
Buchanania macrocarpa
Lauterb. – Maluku Islands,
Papuasia
Buchanania mangoides
F.Muell. – northeast Queensland
Buchanania merrillii
Christoph. – Samoa
Buchanania microphylla Engl. –
Hainan , Philippines
Buchanania nitida Engl. – Philippines, Maluku Islands
Buchanania obovata Engl. – northern Western Australia, northwestern Northern Territory, northwestern Queensland
Buchanania palawensis Lauterb. –
Palau
Buchanania reticulata
Hance – Indo-China
Buchanania sessifolia Blume –
Assam , Indo-China, western
Malesia
Buchanania siamensis Miq. – Indo-China
Buchanania splendens Miq. –
Andaman Islands &
Nicobar Islands , Sumatra, Borneo
Buchanania vitiensis Engl. – Fiji
The following names were previously recognised as species of Buchanania .