Carapa procera
Botanical illustration
Ripe nut
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Meliaceae
Genus: Carapa
Species:
C. procera
Binomial name
Carapa procera
Synonyms[2]
List
    • Carapa guineensis Sweet
    • Carapa gummiflua C.DC.
    • Carapa guyanensis Oliv.
    • Carapa touloucouna Guill. & Perr.
    • Granatum procerum (DC.) Kuntze
    • Racapa procera M.Roem.
    • Touloucouna gigantea M.Roem.
    • Trichilia procera Forsyth ex DC.
    • Xylocarpus procerus (DC.) Steud.
    • Xylocarpus touloucouna (Guill. & Perr.) Steud.
    • Zelea splendens Ten.
    • Zurloa insignis Ten.
    • Zurloa splendens (Ten.) Ten.

Carapa procera, called African crabwood, is a species of tree in the genus Carapa, native to the West African tropics and to the Amazon rainforest, and introduced to Vietnam.[2] Some authorities have split off the South American population into its own species, Carapa surinamensis.[3] The nuts are intensively collected in the wild for their oil, a non-timber forest product.[4] In tropical Africa, the species is increasingly threatened.[5]

References

  1. Prodr. 1: 626 (1824)
  2. 1 2 "Carapa procera DC". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  3. "Carapa surinamensis Miq". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  4. Forget, Pierre-Michel; Jansen, Patrick A. (2007). "Hunting Increases Dispersal Limitation in the Tree Carapa procera, a Nontimber Forest Product". Conservation Biology. 21 (1): 106–113. Bibcode:2007ConBi..21..106F. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00590.x. PMID 17298516. S2CID 6254866.
  5. Fanta Reine Sheirita Tiétiambou; Kolawolé Valère Salako; Jésukpégo Roméo Tohoun; Amadé Ouédraogo (23 July 2020). "Local preferences for three indigenous oil-seed plants and attitudes towards their conservation in the Kénédougou province of Burkina Faso, West-Africa". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 16 (1): 43. doi:10.1186/S13002-020-00393-1. ISSN 1746-4269. PMC 7376732. PMID 32703227. Wikidata Q97679959. (erratum)
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