Caryodendron

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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| image_caption = Caryodendron orinocense in Colombia

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| taxon = Caryodendron

| authority = H.Karst.

| type_species = Caryodendron orinocense

| type_species_authority = H.Karst.

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| synonyms = *Centrodiscus Müll.Arg.

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Caryodendron is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1860.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2951721#page/143/mode/1up Karsten, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann. 1860. Florae Columbiae terraumque adjacentium specimina selecta in peregrinatione duodecim annorum observata delineavit et descripsit 1: 91-92] descriptions in Latin, commentary in German[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40002097 Tropicos] The genus includes C. orinocense, known as the Inchi tree or Tacay nut. It is native to Central America and South America.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=34664 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Burger, W.C. & M.J. Huft. 1995. Family 113. Euphorbiaceae. En: W. C. Burger (ed.), Flora Costaricensis. Fieldiana, Botany, n.s. 36: 1–169.Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil {{cite web|url=http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/ |archive-date=2015-09-06 }}. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de JaneiroWebster, G. L. & M.J. Huft. 1988. Revised synopsis of Panamanian Euphorbiaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 75(3): 1087–1144 They are dioecious trees.Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Malpighiales. Germany, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.

;Species

1. Caryodendron amazonicum Ducke - Amazonas in Brazil
2. Caryodendron angustifolium Standl. - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
3. Caryodendron janeirense Müll.Arg. - Rio de Janeiro
4. Caryodendron orinocense H.Karst - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador