Nephelium
Encyclopedia : N : NE : NEP : Nephelium
Nephelium is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae, native to southeastern Asia.
They are evergreen trees with pinnately compound leaves, and edible drupaceous fruit; one species, N. lappaceum (Rambutan) is commercially important for its fruit. The genus is closely related to Litchi and Dimocarpus.
- Selected species
- Nephelium aculeatum
- Nephelium chryseum
- Nephelium compressum
- Nephelium costatum
- Nephelium cuspidatum
- Nephelium daedaleum
- Nephelium hamulatum
- Nephelium havilandii
- Nephelium hypoleucum - Korlan
- Nephelium juglandifolium
- Nephelium lappaceum - Rambutan
- Nephelium laurinum
- Nephelium macrophyllum
- Nephelium maingayi
- Nephelium meduseum
- Nephelium malaiense
- Nephelium melanomiscum
- Nephelium melliferum
- Nephelium papillatum
- Nephelium ramboutan-ake (syn. N mutabile) - Pulasan
- Nephelium reticulatum
- Nephelium subfalcatum
- Nephelium topengii
- Nephelium uncinatum
External links
- [Germplasm Resources Information Network: Nephelium]
- [Sorting Nephelium names]
- [e-Floras search results for Nephelium]
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.