Oxandra lanceolata

{{distinguish|text = Pseudopanax crassifolius, which is also called lancewood}}

{{short description|Species of plant}}

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|name = Lancewood

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|authority= (Sw.) Baill.{{R|POWO}}

|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

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|genus = Oxandra

|species = lanceolata

|synonyms=

• Bocagea virgata {{small|Benth. & Hook.f.}}
• Cananga lancea {{small|Poit. ex Dunal}}
• Guatteria virgata {{small|Dunal}}
• Oxandra virgata {{small|A.Rich.}}
• Uvaria lanceolata {{small|Sw.}}
• Uvaria virgata {{small|Sw.}}
• Oxandra lanceolata subsp. macrocarpa {{small|R.E.Fr.}}

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Oxandra lanceolata, also known as lancewood in English and chilcahuite in Spanish, is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It occurs naturally in Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.{{cite web | url = http://www.eol.org/pages/1054373/maps | title= Oxandra lanceolata – Maps | publisher= Encyclopedia of Life | access-date= 20 October 2015}}{{cite web| url = http://www.plantes-botanique.org/espece_oxandra_lanceolata | title= Oxandra lanceolata | publisher = Plantes & botanique | language = fr | access-date = 20 October 2015}}

It is an evergreen tree growing up to 15 metres high. Its leaves are 3.5-9.5 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide and elliptic, lanceolate or oblanceolate in shape, with a rounded base and a sharp tip to the leaf blade. The petiole is bare and grows up to 1–2 mm in length. Its compound fruit are ellipsoidal in shape, reddish-black in colour, 11–13 mm long and 7–9 mm wide. Its wood is used as a raw material,{{cite book | author= D.J. Mabberley | title= The Plant-book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants (Second Edition) | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1997 | pages = 512 | isbn = 9780521414210}} such as from October 1886 onwards for truncheons of the London Metropolitan Police.