Hydnocarpus

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title: "Hydnocarpus" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["hydnocarpus", "achariaceae-genera", "dioecious-plants", "flora-of-the-indomalayan-realm"] description: "Genus of flowering plants" topic_path: "general/hydnocarpus" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnocarpus" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of flowering plants ::

|image = Hydnocarpus macrocarpa-3-mundanthurai-tirunelveli-India.jpg |image_caption = Hydnocarpus macrocarpus fruit |taxon = Hydnocarpus |authority = Gaertn. |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text |synonyms = *Asteriastigma Bedd.

• Dankia Gagnep.
• Taraktogenos Hassk.

Hydnocarpus is a genus of medium to large trees in the family Achariaceae; the genus was previously placed in the now defunct family Flacourtiaceae. Species have been recorded from Indochina, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Characteristics

Hydnocarpus has alternate leaves, small dioecious racemose flowers, and capsules of which several are sources of chaulmoogra oil and hydnocarpus oil. A species of Hydnocarpus is thought to host to the Peacock mite Tuckerella filipina.

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Species

Plants of the World Online currently includes:

• Hydnocarpus alcalae C.DC.
• Hydnocarpus alpinus Wight (H.alpina)
• Hydnocarpus annamensis Lescot & Sleumer ex Harwood & B.L.Webber
• Hydnocarpus annamicus H.L.Li
• Hydnocarpus anomalus (Merr.) Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus anthelminithicus (Merr.) Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus beccarianus Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus borneensis Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus calophyllus (Ridl.) Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus calvipetalus Craib
• Hydnocarpus castaneus Hook.f. & Thomson
  • synonym: (sic) Pierre ex Laness.
• Hydnocarpus cauliflorus Merr.
• Hydnocarpus corymbosus Seem.
• Hydnocarpus crassifolius Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus cucurbitinus King (H. cucurbitana)
• Hydnocarpus curtisii King
• Hydnocarpus dawnensis C.E.Parkinson & C.E.C.Fisch.
• Hydnocarpus elmeri Merr.
• Hydnocarpus filipes Symington & Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus glaucescens Blume
• Hydnocarpus gracilis (Slooten) Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus hainanensis (Merr.) Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus heterophyllus Blume
• Hydnocarpus humei Ridl.
• Hydnocarpus ilicifolius King
• Hydnocarpus kunstleri (King) Warb.
• Hydnocarpus kurzii (King) Warb. (= H. heterophyllus)
• Hydnocarpus longipedunculatus Robi, Sasidh. & Jose
• Hydnocarpus macrocarpus (Bedd.) Warb.
• Hydnocarpus merrillianus Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus nanus King (H. nana)
• Hydnocarpus octandrus Thwaites (H. octandra)
• Hydnocarpus pendulus Manilal, T.Sabu & Sivar.
• Hydnocarpus pentandrus (Buch.-Ham.) Oken
  • synonym: Hydnocarpus wightianus Blume
• Hydnocarpus pinguis Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus polypetalus (Slooten) Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus saigonensis Pierre ex Gagnep.
• Hydnocarpus scortechinii King
• Hydnocarpus subfalcatus Merr.
• Hydnocarpus sumatranus (Miq.) Koord. (= H. hutchinsonii)
• Hydnocarpus tenuipetalus Sleumer
• Hydnocarpus venenatus Gaertn. (H. venetana) - type species
• Hydnocarpus verrucosus C.E.Parkinson & C.E.C.Fisch.
• Hydnocarpus woodii Merr.
• Hydnocarpus wrayi King
• Hydnocarpus yatesii Merr.

Note: A number of species were formerly in Taraktogenos.

References

• Multilingual multiscript plant name database

References

1. (2006-03-30). "''Hydnocarpus'' Gaertn.". United States Department of Agriculture.
2. Gaertner (1788) ''De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum: accedunt seminum centuriae quinque priores cum tabulis Aeneis LXXIX. Stutgardiae, Tubingae'' 288. t. 60.
3. [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4341-1 Plants of the World Online: ''Hydnocarpus'' Gaertn. (retrieved 11 June 2020)]
4. [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:365610-1 POWO: Pierre ex Laness. (retrieved 11 </[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-50120563 The Plant List: Pierre ex Laness. (retrieved 11 June 2020)]
5. [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:111766-1 POWO: ''Hydnocarpus wightianus'' Blume (retrieved 11 June 2020)]
6. [http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-4855552 The Plant List: ''Hydnocarpus wightianus'' Blume (retrieved 11 June 2020)]

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