Xylocarpus

Xylocarpus
	Cannonball mangrove in the Daintree region of Queensland, Australia.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Meliaceae
Genus:	Xylocarpus ; J.Koenig
Species
	Xylocarpus granatum, Cannonball mangrove; Xylocarpus mekongensis, Cedar mangrove; Xylocarpus moluccensis, Cedar mangrove, puzzlenut

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Xylocarpus is a genus of plants in the mahogany family (Meliaceae). It includes two^[1] or three^[2] species of mangroves, native to coastal mangrove forests of the Western and Central Indo-Pacific, from eastern Africa to Tonga.

Xylocarpus is the only mangrove genus in family Meliaceae.

References

↑ "Xylocarpus", NPGS-GRIN database, accessed June 1, 2008. [1]
↑ Raju, J.S.S.N "Xylocarpus (Meliaceae): A less-known mangrove taxon of the Godavari estuary, India". Current Science, Indian Academy of Sciences, vol. 84, no. 7; April 10 2003, Pgs. 879–881 [2]

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