Hydnocarpus

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image = Hydnocarpus macrocarpa-3-mundanthurai-tirunelveli-India.jpg

|image_caption = Hydnocarpus macrocarpus fruit

|taxon = Hydnocarpus

|authority = Gaertn.

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text

|synonyms = *Asteriastigma Bedd.

  • Dankia Gagnep.
  • Taraktogenos Hassk.{{Cite web |date=2006-03-30 |title=Hydnocarpus Gaertn. |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?5886 |access-date=2010-01-31 |website=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture}}

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HydnocarpusGaertner (1788) De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum: accedunt seminum centuriae quinque priores cum tabulis Aeneis LXXIX. Stutgardiae, Tubingae 288. t. 60. is a genus of medium to large trees in the family Achariaceae; the genus was previously placed in the now defunct family Flacourtiaceae. Species have been recorded from Indochina, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Characteristics

Hydnocarpus has alternate leaves, small dioecious racemose flowers, and capsules of which several are sources of chaulmoogra oil and hydnocarpus oil. A species of Hydnocarpus is thought to host to the Peacock mite Tuckerella filipina.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

File:Hydnocarpus alpina flower 01.JPG

File:Hydnocarpus alpina leaves.JPG

File:Hydnocarpus pentandra leaves.jpg

Species

Plants of the World Online currently includes:[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4341-1 Plants of the World Online: Hydnocarpus Gaertn. (retrieved 11 June 2020)]

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Note: A number of species were formerly in Taraktogenos.

References

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060927071103/http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/Indian%20Lexicon/hydnocarpus.htm Multilingual multiscript plant name database]