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Magnoliopsida
Anacardium L.
EOL Text
Suffrutices or trees with contact dermatitis-causing exudate. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, domatia usually present in abaxial secondary vein axils. Flowers in terminal and/or axillary thyrses, andromonoecious. Male flowers: calyx 5-partite; petals 5-partite, reflexed, white to light pink, darkening post pollination; disk 0; pistillode 1, very reduced; stamens (6-)8-10(-12), fertile stamens 1(-4), much larger and exserted; filaments basally connate into a staminal tube. Female flowers: perianth and disk similar to male; staminodes 0; ovary falsely 1-merous; stigma 1, obscure, reduced to a mere point. Drupe reniform, subtended by white, green, yellow, or red hypocarp (rarely absent); pericarp woody; exocarp greenish to brown to black; 1-locular. [Description by Dr Susan Pell]
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:35
Specimens with Sequences:36
Specimens with Barcodes:35
Species:6
Species With Barcodes:6
Public Records:14
Public Species:3
Public BINs:0
Anacardium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.
Etymology[edit]
The name Anacardium, originally from the Greek, actually refers to the nut, core or heart of the fruit, which is outwardly located (ana means "upwards" and -cardium means "heart").
Selected species[edit]
- Anacardium corymbosum Barb.Rodr.
- Anacardium excelsum L. - Wild Cashew
- Anacardium giganteum (Bertero & Balb. ex Kunth) Skeels - Caja Acu, also known as Wild Cashew, used medicinally
- Anacardium humile Hance ex Engl.
- Anacardium microcarpum A.St.-Hil.
- Anacardium nanum A.St.-Hil.
- Anacardium negrense Pires & Froes
- Anacardium occidentale L. - Cashew
- Anacardium spruceanum Benth. ex Engl. [2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Anacardium L.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2009-11-23. Retrieved 2010-02-10.
- ^ "Species Records of Anacardium". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-02-10.
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