- Family: Anacardiaceae R.Br.
Mangifera L.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & Subtropical Asia.
[FZ]
Anacardiaceae, Rosette Fernandes & A. Fernandes. Flora Zambesiaca 2:2. 1966
- Habit
- Trees.
- Leaves
- Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, with the lateral nerves arched and anastomosing near the margin; petiole hemicylindric, thickened at the base.
- Flowers
- Flowers polygamous, in terminal or subterminal panicles.
- Calyx
- Sepals 5 (rarely 4), free or nearly so, imbricate.
- Corolla
- Petals 4–5, imbricate, inserted between the disk-lobes, with 1–5 somewhat prominent nerves, the median one prolonged like a crest at the base of the internal face.
- Stamens
- Stamens 5–10, 1 (2–5) fertile, the others sterile; filaments filiform; anthers ovoid.
- Disc
- Disk 4–5-lobulate or vestigial.
- Pistil
- Ovary subglobose, 1-locular, 1-ovulate; style subterminal or lateral, incurved, with a single stigma.
- Fruits
- Drupe subreniform or ovoid with a fleshy mesocarp and a fibrous-woody endocarp.
- Seeds
- Seed oblong-ovoid, compressed, with a chartaceous testa; embryo with cotyledons plano-convex, sometimes lobed and the radicle ascendent.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Habit
- Evergreen trees
- Leaves
- Leaves alternate, simple, entire
- Flowers
- Flowers in paniculate inflorescences, bisexual or male; sepals usually 5, free; petals usually 5; fertile stamens 1(–2) plus 3–9 shorter staminodes; disk usually present; ovary 1-celled; style 1
- Fruits
- Drupes large with a fibrous woody endocarp.
- Distribution
- Some 60 species in the Indomalesian region, one of them, M. indica, widely cultivated in the tropics.
[FTEA]
Anacardiaceae, J. O. Kokwaro (University of Nairobi). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1986
- Habit
- Erect, branched evergreen trees
- Leaves
- Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple, entire, with the lateral nerves arched and anastomosing near the margin
- Flowers
- Flowers polygamous with male and hermaphrodite flowers in the same terminal or subterminal panicles
- Calyx
- Sepals usually 5 (rarely 4–7), free, imbricate
- Corolla
- Petals usually 5 (rarely 4–7), imbricate, inserted between the disk-lobes, with 3–5 darker yellow nerves on the inner surface with the median one prolonged like a crest at the base
- Stamens
- Stamens 5–10, 1 (–2–5) fertile, the others sterile; filaments filiform; anthers ovoid
- Disc
- Disk 4–5-lobulate or vestigial
- Pistil
- Ovary subglobose, 1-locular, 1-ovulate; style subterminal or lateral, incurved, with a single stigma
- Fruits
- Fruit a fleshy drupe, subreniform or ovoid with a fleshy mesocarp and a fibrous woody endocarp
- Seeds
- Seed oblong-ovoid, compressed, with a chartaceous testa; embryo with cotyledons plano-convex, sometimes lobed, and the radicle ascendent.
Native to:
Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
Introduced into:
Angola, Ascension, Bahamas, Brazil South, Burkina, Cameroon, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Christmas I., Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Leeward Is., Malawi, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Provinces, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Rodrigues, Réunion, Santa Cruz Is., Senegal, Somalia, Southwest Caribbean, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Mangifera acutigemma Kosterm.
- Mangifera altissima Blanco
- Mangifera andamanica King
- Mangifera applanata Kosterm.
- Mangifera austroindica Kosterm.
- Mangifera blommesteinii Kosterm.
- Mangifera bullata Kosterm.
- Mangifera caesia Jack
- Mangifera caloneura Kurz
- Mangifera campnospermoides Kosterm.
- Mangifera camptosperma Pierre
- Mangifera casturi Kosterm.
- Mangifera cochinchinensis Engl.
- Mangifera collina Kosterm.
- Mangifera decandra Ding Hou
- Mangifera dewildei Kosterm.
- Mangifera dongnaiensis Pierre
- Mangifera duperreana Pierre
- Mangifera flava Evrard
- Mangifera foetida Lour.
- Mangifera gedebe Miq.
- Mangifera gracilipes Hook.f.
- Mangifera griffithii Hook.f.
- Mangifera havilandii Ridl.
- Mangifera indica L.
- Mangifera inocarpoides Merr. & L.M.Perry
- Mangifera khasiana Pierre
- Mangifera khoonmengiana Kochummen
- Mangifera lagenifera Griff.
- Mangifera lalijiwa Kosterm.
- Mangifera laurina Blume
- Mangifera linearifolia (Mukh.) Kosterm.
- Mangifera macrocarpa Blume
- Mangifera magnifica Kochummen
- Mangifera mariana Buch.-Ham.
- Mangifera merrillii Mukherji
- Mangifera minor Blume
- Mangifera minutifolia Evrard
- Mangifera monandra Merr.
- Mangifera nicobarica Kosterm.
- Mangifera odorata Griff.
- Mangifera orophila Kosterm.
- Mangifera pajang Kosterm.
- Mangifera paludosa Kosterm. ex S.K.Ganesan
- Mangifera parvifolia Boerl. & Koord.-Schum.
- Mangifera pedicellata Kosterm.
- Mangifera pentandra Hook.f.
- Mangifera persiciforma C.Y.Wu & T.L.Ming
- Mangifera pseudoindica Kosterm.
- Mangifera quadrifida Jack
- Mangifera reba Pierre
- Mangifera rubropetala Kosterm.
- Mangifera rufocostata Kosterm.
- Mangifera similis Blume
- Mangifera subsessilifolia Kosterm.
- Mangifera sulavesiana Kosterm.
- Mangifera sumbawaensis Kosterm.
- Mangifera superba Hook.f.
- Mangifera swintonioides Kosterm.
- Mangifera sylvatica Roxb.
- Mangifera timorensis Blume
- Mangifera transversalis Kosterm.
- Mangifera zeylanica (Blume) Hook.f.
Mangifera L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 200 (1753)
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 1: 442.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 93 (1754).
- Sp. Pl. 1: 200 (1753)
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
- Mukherji in Lloydia 12: 73–136 (1949).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 93 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 200 (1753)
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