Clusiaceae

Garcinia L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 443 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropics & Subtropics.

Distribution

Native to:

Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Windward Is., Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Society Is.

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS G: 1-40325.
  • Nazre, M. & al. (2018). Taxonomic Revision of Garcinia Section Garcinia (Clusiaceae). Phytotaxa 373: 1-52.
  • Sosef, M.S.M. & Dauby, G. (2012). Contribution to the taxonomy of Garcinia (Clusiaceae) in Africa, including two new species from Gabon and a key to the Lower Guinean species. PhytoKeys 17: 41-62.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 1: 164.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 202 (1754).
  • Sp. Pl. 1: 443 (1753)

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin & G. Moggi [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 202 (1754)
  • Pierre, Fl. Forest, Cochinchin. 1: Enum. Espèces du Genre Garcina I-XL, t. 54–83 (1882–83)
  • Sp. Pl.: 443 (1753)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Mar 1, 2009 Williams [1176], Brazil K000324899 No
Nov 1, 2003 Onana, J.-M. [1864], Cameroon K000197859 No
Nov 1, 2003 Onana, J.-M. [1865], Cameroon K000197861 No
Jul 1, 2002 Nwaga, D. [19], Cameroon K000026958 No
Jan 1, 1990 Thomas, D.W. [2674], Cameroon K000105264 No
Jan 1, 1990 Thomas, D.W. [3306], Cameroon K000105263 No
Brenan, J.P.M. [8428], Nigeria 22125.000 No
Thailand 46647.000 No
Coode [6019], Indonesia 55477.000 No
Harris, D.J. [2370], Central African Republic 60051.000 No
Frodin, D.G. [2491], New Guinea 60075.000 No
Ash [441], Ethiopia 6049.362 No
Coode, M.J.E. [6907], Brunei 61309.000 No
Cheek, M. [9084], Cameroon 61668.000 No
Milliken, W. [880], Indonesia 62753.000 No
Frodin, D.G. [2362A], New Guinea 63177.000 No
DuPuy, B. [MB 393], Madagascar 63558.000 No
Etuge, M. [1657], Cameroon 63805.000 No
Johns, R.J. [8765], Indonesia 72670.000 No
Utteridge, T.M.A. [315], Indonesia 70000.097 No
Davis, A.P. [1085], Madagascar 72949.000 No
Letouzey, R. [14052], Cameroon K000105262 No
Thomas, D.W. [2675], Cameroon K000105265 No
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.], Assam K001132292 Yes
Burgt, X.M. van der [912], Cameroon K000460346 No
Burgt, X.M. van der [664], Cameroon K000023275 No
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.], China K001132819 Yes
Walker, J.S. [DB046], Sulawesi 73336.000 No
Pennington, T.D. [13229], Bolivia Rheedia 57453.000 No
Pennington, R.T. [10], Bolivia Rheedia 57633.000 No
Baron, R. [6994], Madagascar Rheedia K000380197 Yes

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
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  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
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    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    • The Malesian Key Group (2010) Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China (Version 2.0, 28 Jul 2010) The Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Leiden and The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images