Buchanania

This article is about the genus of plants. For the genus of sea snails, see Buchanania (gastropod).

Buchanania
File:Buchanania angustifolia.jpg
Buchanania angustifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Anacardiaceae
Subfamily:	Anacardioideae
Genus:	Buchanania Spreng.
Species
See text
Synonyms
Cambessedea Kunth Coniogeton Blume Hypericinea Wall. Lanzana Stokes Loureira Meisn. Lundia Puerari ex DC. Toluifera Lour.

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.

Species

As of 21 April 2024, Plants of the World Online recognises 26 species in the genus, 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. – northeast Queensland
• Buchanania merrillii Christoph. – Samoa
• Buchanania microphylla Engl. – Hainan, Philippines
• Buchanania nitida Engl. – Philippines, Maluku Islands
• Buchanania obovata Engl. – northern Western Australia, northwestern Northern Territory, northwestern Queensland
• 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

Formerly placed here

The following names were previously recognised as species of Buchanania.

• Buchanania cochinchinensis – now Glycosmis cochinchinensis
• Buchanania latifolia – now Buchanania lanzan
• Buchanania platyneura – now Buchanania splendens
• Buchanania solomonensis – now Buchanania arborescens
• Buchanania yunnanensis – now Spondias pinnata
• Buchanania versteeghii – now Buchanania arborescens

External links

• "Buchanania Spreng". Atlas of Living Australia.