Buchanania

Buchanania is a genus of plants in the mango and cashew family Anacardiaceae, native to areas from India to southern China, and southwards to northern Australia and the western Pacific.^[1][2]

This genus consists of trees with Template:Botanygloss, unlobed leaves arranged alternately on the twigs. Flowers are produced in Template:Botanygloss or terminal panicles. Flowers are bisexual, i.e. they have both male and female organs. They usually have 5 Template:Botanygloss lobes and 5 petals, sometimes 4 or 6, and are pale green to white. There are 10 stamens and 4–6 carpels, only one of which is fertile. Fruits are more or less lens-shaped drupes with a bony or woody Template:Botanygloss, and contain a single seed.^[3][4] Unlike other genera in the family, Buchanania does not appear to cause contact dermatitis.^[5]: 195

The genus Buchanania was erected in 1801 by German botanist Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel based on a collection of plant material by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton from what is now Myanmar. The genus was named after the collector.^[3][6]

The genus is native to areas from South and Southeast Asia, extending to northern Australia and the western Pacific. The full distribution is as follows:^[1][2]

• Indian subcontinent: Assam, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya
• China & East Asia: China South-Central, Hainan, Taiwan,
• Indo-China: Andaman Is., Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Thailand, Vietnam
• Malesia: Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera
• Papuasia: Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Solomon Is.
• Australia: Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
• Western Pacific: Caroline Is., Fiji, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Vanuatu

As of 21 April 2024^[update], Plants of the World Online recognises 26 species in the genus,^[2] as follows:

• Buchanania abrahamiana E.S.S.Kumar & Shareef – India
• Buchanania amboinensis Miq. – Maluku Islands, New Guinea, Solomon Islands
• Buchanania arborescens (Blume) Blume – India, Taiwan, tropical Asia, northern Australia, western Pacific
• Buchanania attenuata A.C.Sm. – Santa Cruz Islands, Fiji
• Buchanania axillaris (Desr.) Ramamoorthy – India, Sri Lanka
• Buchanania barberi Gamble – India
• Buchanania engleriana Volkens – Caroline Islands
• Buchanania evrardii Tardieu – Cambodia
• Buchanania ferruginea Engl. – India
• Buchanania glabra Wall. ex Engl. – India, Indo-China
• Buchanania insignis Blume – Borneo, Philippines
• Buchanania lanceolata Wight – southwestern India, Myanmar
• Buchanania lancifolia Roxb. – Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Myanmar
• Buchanania lanzan Spreng. – Indian subcontinent, southern China, Indo-China
• Buchanania macrocarpa Lauterb. – Maluku Islands, Papuasia
• Buchanania mangoides F.Muell. – Queensland
• Buchanania merrillii Christoph. – Samoa
• Buchanania microphylla Engl. – Hainan, Philippines
• Buchanania nitida Engl. – Philippines, Maluku Islands
• Buchanania obovata Engl. – northern Australia
• Buchanania palawensis Lauterb. – Palau
• Buchanania reticulata Hance – Indo-China
• Buchanania sessifolia Blume – Assam, Indo-China, western Malesia
• Buchanania siamensis Miq. – Indo-China
• Buchanania splendens Miq. – Andaman Islands & Nicobar Islands, Sumatra, Borneo
• Buchanania vitiensis Engl. – Fiji

The following names were previously recognised as species of Buchanania.

• Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) M.R.Almeida – now Glycosmis cochinchinensis (Lour.) Pierre ex Engl.^[7]
• Buchanania yunnanensis C.Y.Wu – now Spondias pinnata (L.f.) Kurz^[8]
• Buchanania zeylanica Blume – now Mangifera zeylanica (Blume) Hook.f.^[9]

• "Buchanania Spreng.". Atlas of Living Australia. https://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2898362. 

Wikidata ☰ Q4982615 entry

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