Harpephyllum

{{Short description|Genus of trees}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}

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| image = Harpephyllum caffrum00.jpg

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author1=Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) & IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group |year=2019 |title=Harpephyllum caffrum |volume=2019 |page=e.T149505280A149505282 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T149505280A149505282.en |access-date=23 July 2024}}

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| genus = Harpephyllum

| parent_authority = Bernh. ex C.Krauss

| species = afrum

| authority = Bernh. ex C.Krauss

| synonyms = *Tapirira afra (Bernh. ex C.Krauss) Marchand

| synonyms_ref = {{Cite web|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:69659-1|title=Harpephyllum afrum Bernh. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science|website=Plants of the World Online|accessdate=8 August 2024|archive-date=6 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240706193725/https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:69659-1|url-status=live}}

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Harpephyllum is a genus of trees in the family Anacardiaceae (the cashew and mango family). The sole species is Harpephyllum afrum,{{cite journal |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02365-x | doi=10.1038/d41586-024-02365-x | title=Hundreds of racist plant names will change after historic vote by botanists | date=2024 | last1=Callaway | first1=Ewen | journal=Nature | pmid=39026072 | url-access=subscription | access-date=8 August 2024 | archive-date=8 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808163208/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02365-x | url-status=live }} a dioecious evergreen species from South Africa and Mozambique that is also cultivated.{{cite book|author=Kubitzki, Klaus|title=Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_hHvYeQYTTEC&pg=PA41|access-date=27 July 2013|year= 2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-642-14397-7|pages=41}}{{GRIN | Harpephyllum caffrum | 18256 | accessdate = 27 July 2013}} The fruit is edible.

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