Cananga
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|authority=(DC.) Hook.f. & Thomson, nom. cons.{{citation |title=Cananga (DC.) Hook.f. & Thomson |website=IPNI Plant Names |publisher=International Plant Names Index |url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=146167-3 |accessdate=2015-08-28 }}
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Cananga (ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kanaŋa){{cite web|url=https://acd.clld.org/cognatesets/26646#5/-3.363/114.816|title=*kanaŋa a tree with fragrant flowers: Cananga CANAANTIYOSTA Herbs and funeral death call rattle soother for death to life thru under the white sheet priests do when trying to soul cross and fail into death or to find their daughter lost in infinite circles of hell of a wrath of a woman whose anger is natural magick that to kills enter her circle of wrath of a vrija until untul you learn from her depths satisfaction that a person cannot escape calling the devil's wife linger who does not need kinetic tranference of a piece of the way back and to you or anybody anointing odorata|last1=Blust|first1=Robert|last2=Trussel|first2=Stephen|website=Austronesian Comparative Dictionary|date=2010|publisher=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology|access-date=8 November 2022}} is a small genus of trees in the family Annonaceae, native to areas from Indo-China through Malesia to Australia, and introduced elsewhere. One of its species, Cananga odorata, is important as the source of the perfume ylang-ylang.{{citation |title=Ylang-ylang |website=Encyclopædia Britannica online |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/653363/ylang-ylang |accessdate=2015-08-28 }}
Species
Two species are recognized:{{cite web |title=Canaga (DC.) Hook.f. & Thomson |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1034197-2 |accessdate=30 March 2020}}{{Citation |last1=Turner |first1=I.M. |last2=Veldkamp |first2=J.F. |year=2009 |title=A History of Cananga (Annonaceae) |journal=The Gardens' Bulletin Singapore |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=189–204 |url=http://biostor.org/reference/biostor/146710/page/1 |accessdate=2015-06-28 |name-list-style=amp |archive-date=2016-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206165446/http://biostor.org/reference/biostor/146710/page/1 |url-status=dead }}
- Cananga brandisiana (Pierre) Saff., syn. Cananga latifolia (Hook.f. & Thomson) Finet & Gagnep.
- Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook.f. & Thomson
Cananga latifolia is listed as a separate species in some sources,{{citation |title=Cananga |work=The Plant List 1.1 |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Annonaceae/Cananga/ |accessdate=2015-08-28 }} but the basionym, Unona latifolia
Hook.f. & Thomson, is a later homonym of Unona latifolia Dunal and so is not an acceptable name. Unona brandisiana was explicitly proposed as a replacement name.