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Dimocarpus
Dimocarpus is a genus of trees or shrubs in the flowering plant family Sapindaceae. It includes 7 species which grow naturally in tropical south and Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, and Australasia, including Sri Lanka, India, the Philippines, southern China, Taiwan, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, East Timor, far north-eastern Queensland, Australia.
The fruit is edible, with the longan (D. longan) being grown commercially for fruit production.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Longan
speciesDimocarpus longan
Dimocarpus fumatus
speciesDimocarpus fumatus
Dimocarpus australianus
speciesDimocarpus australianus
Dimocarpus gardneri
speciesDimocarpus gardneri
Dimocarpus foveolatus
speciesDimocarpus foveolatus
Dimocarpus yunnanensis
speciesDimocarpus yunnanensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 183750.