Dimocarpus

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|image = Dimocarpus_longan_fruits.jpg

|image_caption = Dimocarpus longan fruit

|taxon = Dimocarpus

|authority = Lour. (1790)

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = 7; see text

|subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:36370-1 Dimocarpus Lour.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 28 October 2023.

|synonyms = Pseudonephelium {{small|Radlk. (1890)}}

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Dimocarpus is a genus of trees or shrubs in the flowering plant family Sapindaceae. It includes 7 species which grow naturally in tropical south and Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, and Australasia, including Sri Lanka, India, the Philippines, southern China, Taiwan, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, East Timor, far north-eastern Queensland, Australia.

The fruit is edible, with the longan (D. longan) being grown commercially for fruit production.

The species are large evergreen trees growing to 25–40 m tall, with pinnate leaves. The flowers are individually inconspicuous, produced in large panicles. The fruit is an oval drupe 3–5 cm long containing a single seed surrounded by a translucent crisp, juicy layer of fruit pulp and a thin but hard orange or red skin.

Species

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
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	Dimocarpus australianus {{small\|Leenh.}}		Cape York Peninsula, Australia
	Dimocarpus dentatus {{small\|Meijer ex Leenh.}}		Malaysia, Sabah
	Dimocarpus foveolatus {{small\|(Radlk.) Leenh.}}		Philippines (Luzon, Panay, Samar)
	Dimocarpus fumatus {{small\|(Blume) Leenh.}}		S and SE Asia from Sri Lanka and India to E Malesia; D. fumatus subsp. indochinensis in China and Vietnam
	Dimocarpus gardneri {{small\|(Thwaites) Leenh.}}		Sri Lanka.
120px	Dimocarpus longan {{small\|Lour.}}	Longan	China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand
120px	Dimocarpus malesianus{{cite journal \| last1=Lithanatudom \| first1=Suparat K. \| last2=Chaowasku \| first2=Tanawat \| last3=Nantarat \| first3=Nattawadee \| last4=Jaroenkit \| first4=Theeranuch \| last5=Smith \| first5=Duncan R. \| last6=Lithanatudom \| first6=Pathrapol \| title=A First Phylogeny of the Genus Dimocarpus and Suggestions for Revision of Some Taxa Based on Molecular and Morphological Evidence \| journal=Scientific Reports \| volume=7 \| date=2021-03-09 \| issue=1 \| pmid=28751754 \| doi=10.1038/s41598-017-07045-7 \| page=6716\| pmc=5532229 \| doi-access=free }}	Alupag	Sarawak, Malesia
	Dimocarpus yunnanensis {{small\|(W.T.Wang) C.Y.Wu & T.L.Ming}}		China

References

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{{Cite book

| last1= Leenhouts | first1= Pieter W.

| year= 1994

| contribution= Dimocarpus Lour.

| contribution-url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28496630

| access-date= 5 Dec 2013

| title= Sapindaceae

| editor1-last= Adema | editor1-first= F.

| editor2-last= Leenhouts | editor2-first= P. W.

| editor3-last= van Welzen | editor3-first= P. C.

| volume= 11

| issue= pt. 3

| pages= 511–519

| work= Flora Malesiana

| series= Series I, Spermatophyta : Flowering Plants

| location= Leiden, The Netherlands

| publisher= Rijksherbarium / Hortus Botanicus, Leiden University

| isbn= 90-71236-21-8

}}

{{Cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?3723 |title=Dimocarpus Lour. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2006-03-29 |access-date=2010-01-19}}

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Dimocarpus

Species

References

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