Neocarya

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image =Neocarya macrophylla 0002.jpg

|genus = Neocarya

|parent_authority = (DC.) Prance ex F.White

|species = macrophylla

|authority = (Sabine) Prance ex F.White

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|synonyms = *Parinari sect. Neocarya DC.

• Parinari subgen. Neocarya (DC.) Blume ex Fürnr.
• Parinari macrophylla Sabine
• Petrocarya macrophylla (Sabine) Steud.
• Ferolia macrophylla (Sabine) Kuntze
• Parinari senegalensis Perr. ex DC.
• Petrocarya senegalensis (Perr. ex DC.) Steud.

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Neocarya is a genus of plant in family Chrysobalanaceae described as a genus in 1976.[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40036726 Tropicos, Neocarya (DC.) Prance ex F. White ]White, Frank. 1976. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 46(3–4): 308

It contains only one known species, Neocarya macrophylla, native to western and central Africa from Senegal to the Nigeria, and also in South Sudan. It is commonly known in English as the Gingerbread Plum, despite not being related to the true Plum (Prunus sp.). [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=354888 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]