|
|
| ID |
Family
ID |
Name |
Authorities |
Common
Name |
Num.
of Species |
Geolocation |
Growth
Forms |
Family
Name |
Overview |
| 6837 |
16 |
Canella |
|
|
|
Dominican
Republic, Puerto Rico, Florida |
|
Cannellaceae |
Has
wood |
| 5731 |
68 |
Canotia |
Torrey |
|
2 |
S.W. U.S. |
|
|
Allied to
Acanthothamus |
| 7630 |
305 |
Canthium |
|
|
|
Indonesia,
Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Hawaii, S. Africa, Cameroon, Australia, New Calidonia,
Thailand, New Guinea |
|
Saxifragaceae |
Has wood. |
| 5641 |
40 |
Capparis |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 7438 |
286 |
Carallia |
|
|
|
|
|
Rhizophoraceae |
Has wood |
| 7946 |
246 |
Carapa |
|
Andiroba,
Crabwood |
|
Guatemala,
Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad, Venezuela, Columbia, Brazil, throughout
the Amazon rainforest |
Tree |
Meliaceae |
Has commercial
wood. |
| 7344 |
275 |
Cardwellia |
|
Silky Oak |
|
Australia:
Queensland |
|
Proteaceae |
Commerical
wood |
| 7196 |
248 |
Careya |
|
|
|
|
|
Myrtaceae |
Has wood |
| 6748 |
191 |
Cariniana |
|
Albarco, Jequtiba |
10 |
E. Peru, N.
Boliva, Brazil, Venezuela, Columbia |
|
Lecythidaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 5889 |
147 |
Carissa |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 7077 |
235 |
Carpodiptera |
|
|
|
|
|
Tiliaceae |
Has wood |
| 6689 |
173 |
Carya |
|
Hickory Family |
|
Eastern N.America |
Tree |
Juglandaceae |
Has much commercial
wood |
| 8395 |
370 |
Caryocar |
|
Piquia |
|
Brazil, E.
North America, Amazon, N.E. South America |
|
Caryocaraceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 8586 |
428 |
Casearia |
|
|
|
Oceana, S.E.
Asia, Australia, Guyana |
Tree |
Flacourtiaceae |
Has commercial
wood. |
| 6275 |
140 |
Cassia |
L. |
|
|
Many African
companies |
TreeBush |
|
Has Wood |
| 5732 |
68 |
Cassine |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 7439 |
286 |
Cassipourea |
|
|
|
Africa |
Tree |
Rhizophoraceae |
Has wood |
| 6543 |
145 |
Castanea |
|
Chestnut |
|
|
Tree |
|
Has commercial
wood |
| 6544 |
145 |
Castanopsis |
|
Berganan |
|
|
|
|
Has commercial
wood |
| 6276 |
140 |
Castanospermum |
A Cunn. ex.
Mudie. |
|
|
Australia,
Tropical America, W. New Britain, New Caledonia, Vanuatu |
Tree |
|
Has commercial
wood |
| 8492 |
398 |
Castilla |
|
|
|
|
|
Moraceae |
Has wood. |
| 5727 |
65 |
Casuarina |
|
Australian
Beefwood, Botany Bay Oak |
|
|
|
|
|
| 8200 |
350 |
Catalpa |
|
Catalpa |
|
S.E. U.S.,
Canada, China |
Tree |
Bignoniaceae |
Has commercial
wood. |
| 6964 |
224 |
Catostemma |
|
|
|
Guyana |
|
Bombacaceae |
Has wood |
| 6965 |
224 |
Cavanillesia |
|
|
|
|
|
Bombacaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 8478 |
482 |
Cecropia |
Loefl. |
|
75 |
Tropical America |
|
Cercropiaceae |
Has wood. |
| 7947 |
246 |
Cedrela |
|
American Cedar,
Cigar Box Cedar |
|
Mexico, Central
& S. America |
Tree |
Meliaceae |
Has commercial
wood. |
| 6277 |
140 |
Cedrelinga |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 5842 |
10 |
Cedrus |
|
True Cedars |
|
|
|
|
|
| 6966 |
224 |
Ceiba |
|
|
|
Brazil, Columbia,
Peru |
Tree |
Bombacaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 8535 |
307 |
Celtis |
L. |
Hackberry |
100 |
most in tropical
areas, others in temperate areas. 4 species in Europe. |
Tree |
Ulmaceae |
Has important
commercial timbers. |
| 6280 |
140 |
Centrolobium |
|
|
|
Brazil, Bolivia |
|
|
Has commercial
exotic wood |
| 7489 |
293 |
Ceratopetalum |
|
|
|
Australia:
Queensland |
|
Cunoniaceae |
Has wood. |
| 5891 |
147 |
Cerbera |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 8474 |
392 |
Cercidiphyllum |
Siebold &
Zucc. |
Katsura Tree |
2 |
China, Japan |
Tree |
Cercidiphyllaceae |
Has commercial
wood. Includes largest deciduous tree in Japan. |
| 6282 |
140 |
Cercidium |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 6283 |
140 |
Cercis |
|
Redbud |
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 7440 |
286 |
Ceriops |
|
|
|
|
|
Rhizophoraceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 7835 |
324 |
Cervantesia |
|
|
|
Andes Mountains,
Ecuador |
Tree |
Santalaceae |
Has wood.
Small tree. |
| 6080 |
132 |
Chaetocarpus |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 5817 |
434 |
Chamaecyparis |
Spach. |
White Cedar |
8 |
North America,
Japan |
Tree |
|
|
| 8202 |
350 |
Chilopsis |
|
|
|
|
|
Bignoniaceae |
Has wood. |
| 7948 |
246 |
Chisocheton |
|
|
|
|
|
Meliaceae |
Has wood. |
| 8494 |
398 |
Chlorophora |
|
Iroko |
|
West, East,
& Central Africa, Costa Rica |
|
Moraceae |
Has important
commercial wood. |
| 8758 |
314 |
Chloroxylon |
DC. |
Satinwood |
1 |
Southern India,
Sri Lanka |
|
|
Valuable timber
for furniture & Veneers
Has also been placed in Fliinderseae. |
| 6967 |
224 |
Chorisia |
|
|
|
Brazil, Argentina |
Tree |
Bombacaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 8137 |
102 |
Chrysophyllum |
L. |
Satinleaf |
43 |
Tropical Africa |
|
Sapotaceae |
Has commercial
timber. |
| 7949 |
246 |
Chukrasia |
|
Chuckrassy |
|
India, Vietnam |
|
Meliaceae |
Has commercial
wood. |
| 6876 |
186 |
Cinnamomum |
|
Cinnamon,
Camphor Tree |
|
Australia |
|
Lauraceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 6726 |
179 |
Citharexylum |
|
Savannawood |
|
|
|
Verbenaceae |
Has timber |
| 8495 |
398 |
Clarisia |
|
|
|
|
|
Moraceae |
Has wood. |
| 6288 |
140 |
Clathrotropis |
|
|
|
Latin America,
Oceana, S.E. Asia |
|
|
Has Wood |
| 6083 |
132 |
Cleistanthus |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 7197 |
248 |
Cleistocalyx |
|
|
|
Fiji, China,
Malaysia, India, Vietnam |
|
Myrtaceae |
Has wood |
| 6788 |
170 |
Cleistopholis |
|
|
|
|
|
Annonaceae |
Has wood |
| 8087 |
165 |
Clusia |
|
|
|
Tropical America |
Tree |
Guttiferae |
Has wood. |
| 6989 |
223 |
Cochlospermum |
|
|
|
Guyana |
|
Bixaceae |
Has wood |
| 6921 |
18 |
Coelocaryon |
|
|
|
|
|
Myristicaceae |
Has wood |
| 6968 |
224 |
Coelostegia |
|
|
|
|
|
Bombacaceae |
Has wood |
| 7047 |
234 |
Cola |
|
|
|
Africa |
|
Sterculiaceae |
Has timber |
| 6292 |
140 |
Colophospermum |
|
Mopane |
|
Africa |
|
|
Has Wood |
| 7406 |
284 |
Colubrina |
|
|
|
|
|
Rhamnaceae |
Has wood |
| 7107 |
239 |
Combretodendron |
|
Esia |
|
Tropical W.
Africa |
Tree |
Combretaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 7108 |
239 |
Combretum |
|
|
|
Africa: S.
Africa, Tanzania |
|
Combretaceae |
Has wood |
| 7109 |
239 |
Conocarpus |
|
|
|
America &
Africa |
Tree |
Combretaceae |
Has wood as
mangroves |
| 6573 |
80 |
Conopharyngia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 6295 |
140 |
Copaifera |
|
|
12 |
Tropical America
& Africa |
|
|
Has commercial
wood |
| 6698 |
29 |
Cordia |
|
Canalette,
Bocote, Zircote |
|
Mexico, Central
America |
Tree |
Boraginaceae |
Has commercial
timber |
| 6296 |
140 |
Cordyla |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 5906 |
84 |
Cornus |
|
Dogwood |
|
N. Temperate
zones |
TreeBush |
|
|
| 6992 |
228 |
Cotylelobium |
L. |
Resak |
9 |
S.&E. Africa
to Arabia |
|
Diptercarpaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 7798 |
321 |
Coula |
|
|
|
|
|
Olacaceae |
Has wood. |
| 5892 |
147 |
Couma |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 6750 |
191 |
Couratari |
|
Tauari, Bobon |
|
Brazil |
|
Lecythidaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 6751 |
191 |
Couroupita |
|
Cannon-Ball
Tree |
|
|
|
Lecythidaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 7549 |
304 |
Crataegus |
L. |
Hawthorns |
|
Canada, U.S.,
U.K. Himalayas |
Tree |
Rosaceae |
Has minor
commercial wood |
| 8088 |
165 |
Cratoxylon |
|
|
|
|
|
Guttiferae |
Has wood. |
| 8203 |
350 |
Crescentia |
L. |
|
6 |
Tropical America,
Amazon, Central America, W. Puerto-Rico |
Tree |
Bignoniaceae |
Has wood. |
| 6092 |
132 |
Croton |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 7117 |
240 |
Crypteronia |
|
|
|
|
|
Crypteroniaceae |
Has wood |
| 6877 |
186 |
Cryptocarya |
|
|
|
Australia:
Queensland |
|
Lauraceae |
Has commercial
high quality wood |
| 5818 |
434 |
Cryptomeria |
|
|
|
China & Japan |
Tree |
|
|
| 6759 |
200 |
Ctenolophon |
Oliver |
|
|
1 species
in Africa, 1 in Malaysia |
|
Ctenolophaceae |
Has wood,
some timbers |
| 7491 |
293 |
Cunonia |
|
|
|
|
|
Cunoniaceae |
Has wood. |
| 5821 |
434 |
Cupressus |
L. |
Cypress |
13 |
Northern Hemisphere |
Trees |
|
|
| 5907 |
84 |
Curtisia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 5388 |
19 |
Cussonia |
Thunb. |
|
25 |
Tropical S.
Africa to Mascarenes |
Tree |
Araliaceae |
|
| 6305 |
140 |
Cynometra |
|
|
|
Central &
E. Africa |
|
|
Has commercial
wood |
| 6006 |
124 |
Cyrilla |
|
|
|
North & Central
America |
|
|
Has wood |
| 5854 |
11 |
Dacrydium |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 7917 |
310 |
Dacryodes |
Vahl. |
|
40 |
Tropical areas |
|
Burseraceae |
Has some timbers. |
| 7118 |
240 |
Dactylocladus |
Oliver |
Medang Tabak |
|
Malaysia,
Indonesia |
|
Crypteroniaceae |
Has large
commercial timber |
| 6307 |
140 |
Dalbergia |
|
True Rosewoods |
|
Many tropical
areas of the world |
|
|
Has expensive
commercial woods |
| 6311 |
140 |
Daniellia |
|
Ogea, Faro |
|
Africa |
|
|
Has Wood |
| 6907 |
213 |
Daphnandra |
|
|
|
Austalia |
Tree |
Monimiaceae |
Has wood |
| 5618 |
33 |
Daphniphyllum |
Blume |
|
10 |
China through
Indomalaysia to tropical Australia |
TreeBush |
|
|
| 6196 |
137 |
Daphnopsis |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 5855 |
11 |
Decussocarpus |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 6847 |
206 |
Degeneria |
|
|
1 |
Fiji |
|
Degeneriaceae |
Has wood |
| 6314 |
140 |
Delonix |
|
|
|
Africa, Madagascar |
|
|
Has Wood |
| 5390 |
19 |
Dendropanax |
Decne & Planchon. |
|
60 |
Tropical America,
E. Asia, Malaysia |
|
Araliaceae |
50 species
in tropical America. Some Timber. |
| 7934 |
311 |
Desbordesia |
|
|
|
|
|
Irvingiaceae |
Has wood. |
| 6318 |
140 |
Detarium |
|
|
|
Africa |
|
|
Has commercial
wood |
| 6310 |
140 |
Dialium |
|
Keranji, Tamarind
Plum |
|
Africa |
|
|
Has commercial
timber |
| 6923 |
18 |
Dialyanthera |
|
Red Cumala |
|
Columbia,
Ecuador, Peru |
|
Myristicaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 8138 |
102 |
Dichopsis |
|
Nyatoh |
|
Philippines |
|
Sapotaceae |
Dichopsis
luzoniensis Fern.-Vill. = Palaquium luzoniense (Fern.-Vill.) S. Vidal
Has wood. |
| 6319 |
140 |
Dichrostachys |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 5976 |
110 |
Dillenia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has wood |
| 6321 |
140 |
Dinizia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 8410 |
119 |
Diospyros |
|
Ebony |
|
|
|
Ebenaceae |
Has wood. |
| 8139 |
102 |
Dipholis |
A. DC. |
|
|
Southern North
America to northern South America |
|
Sapotaceae |
Dipholis =
Sideroxylon.
Go to Sideroxylon for details
Has wood. |
| 6323 |
140 |
Diphysa |
|
|
|
Mexico to
Brazil |
|
|
Has Wood |
| 7082 |
235 |
Diplodiscus |
|
|
|
|
|
Tiliaceae |
Has wood |
| 6324 |
140 |
Diplotropis |
|
Sucupira |
|
Peru |
|
|
Has commercial
wood |
| 6994 |
228 |
Dipterocarpus |
|
|
|
Borneo, Malaysia,
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Andaman Islands |
Tree |
Diptercarpaceae |
Has important
commercial woods |
| 6325 |
140 |
Dipteryx |
|
|
|
Brazil, Bolivia,
Peru, Costa Rica |
|
|
Has commercial
wood |
| 6101 |
132 |
Discoglypremna |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 6326 |
140 |
Distemonanthus |
|
Movingui,
Ayan |
1 |
W. Africa |
|
|
Has Wood |
| 7049 |
234 |
Dombeya |
|
|
|
|
|
Sterculiaceae |
Has wood |
| 6908 |
213 |
Doryphora |
|
|
|
Australia:
N.S.W. |
|
Monimiaceae |
Has wood |
| 7873 |
327 |
Dracontomelon |
|
Paldao |
|
Borneo, Sumatra,
Mayanmar to Indomalasia |
Tree |
Anacardiaceae |
Has commericial
wood. |
| 6686 |
172 |
Drimys |
|
|
|
Central America,
Mexico, Chile, Ecuador |
Tree |
Winteraceae |
Has wood.
Includes evergreen tree. |
| 6995 |
228 |
Dryobalanops |
Gaertner |
Kapur |
7 |
Malaysia |
|
Diptercarpaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 6100 |
132 |
Drypetes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 7123 |
255 |
Duabanga |
Buch.-Ham. |
Duabanga |
2 |
Indomalaysia |
|
Lythraceae |
Has commercial
wood. Used for teac chests.
Literature has also placed it uner Lythraceae. |
| 8360 |
103 |
Duboisia |
|
|
|
|
|
Solanaceae |
Has wood. |
| 6970 |
224 |
Durio |
|
Durian, Red
Burong |
|
|
|
Bombacaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 5893 |
147 |
Dyera |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 7950 |
246 |
Dysoxylum |
|
|
|
Australia,
New Zealand |
|
Meliaceae |
Has commercial
wood. |
| 6696 |
175 |
Ehretia |
P. Brown |
|
75 |
Austrralia,
Mexico, U.S.: Florida |
|
Avicenniaceae |
Has wood |
| 7951 |
246 |
Ekebergia |
|
|
|
Tanzania,
Uganda |
Tree |
Meliaceae |
Has wood. |
| 7008 |
405 |
Elaeocarpus |
|
Medang |
|
|
|
Elaeocarpaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 6102 |
132 |
Elateriospermum |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 7349 |
275 |
Embothrium |
|
|
|
Chile |
Bush |
Proteaceae |
|
| 8213 |
350 |
Enallagma |
(Miller) Small. |
Black Calabash,
Jicarillo, Savanna Calabash, Chaff |
|
Mexico & Costa
Rica; Cultured in S. Florida |
Irregular
Shaped tree to 30 ft. |
Bignoniaceae |
Enallagma
is now an invalid, "illegal" name. Refer to Amphitechna now.
Has wood. |
| 6798 |
170 |
Enantia |
|
|
|
|
|
Annonaceae |
Has wood |
| 6880 |
186 |
Endiandra |
|
|
|
Australia:
Queensland |
|
Lauraceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 6103 |
132 |
Endospermum |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 6690 |
173 |
Engelhardtia |
|
|
|
Taiwan |
|
Juglandaceae |
Has wood |
| 7952 |
246 |
Entandrophragma |
|
Tiama, Gedu
Nohor |
|
|
|
Meliaceae |
Has commercial
wood. |
| 7291 |
140 |
Enterolobium |
|
Timbouva |
|
Argentina |
|
Vochysiaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 6332 |
140 |
Eperua |
|
|
|
N.E. South
America |
|
|
Has commercial
wood |
| 8272 |
354 |
Eremophila |
R. Br. |
|
206 |
Australia
(1 in N.Z.), |
Tree |
Myoporaceae |
Has wood. |
| 7552 |
304 |
Eriobotrya |
|
Loquat |
|
China, Taiwan |
|
Rosaceae |
Has wood. |
| 7050 |
234 |
Eriolaena |
|
|
|
|
|
Sterculiaceae |
Has wood |
| 7289 |
265 |
Erisma |
|
|
|
Tropical South
America: Brazil, Bolivia, Frenth Guiana |
|
Vochysiaceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 6333 |
140 |
Erythrina |
|
|
|
Burma, Java |
|
|
Has commercial
wood |
| 8734 |
161 |
Erythroxylum |
P. Brown |
|
230 |
Tropical areas,
especially in the Americas.
80 species in America & Madagascar, 3 in Australia |
Trees, shrubs |
|
|
| 8735 |
161 |
Erythroxylum |
P. Brown |
|
230 |
Tropical areas,
especially in the Americas.
80 species in America & Madagascar, 3 in Australia |
Trees, shrubs |
|
Often a source
for narcotics, including cocaine. |
| 5590 |
24 |
Eschweilera |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 7202 |
248 |
Eucalyptus |
|
|
|
Esp. Australia |
Tree |
Myrtaceae |
Has many commercial
timbers |
| 8411 |
119 |
Euclea |
|
|
|
Many countries
in Africa, Oman, Yemen |
|
Ebenaceae |
Has wood. |
| 7507 |
295 |
Eucryphia |
|
|
|
Chile, TAsmania |
Tree |
Eucryphiaceae |
Has wood. |
| 7203 |
248 |
Eugenia |
|
|
|
|
|
Myrtaceae |
Has wood |
| 6104 |
132 |
Euphorbia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has Wood |
| 7875 |
327 |
Euroschinus |
|
|
|
Australia:
Queensland |
|
Anacardiaceae |
Has wood. |
| 6882 |
186 |
Eusideroxylon |
|
Belin, Ulin |
|
Borneo |
|
Lauraceae |
Has commercial
wood |
| 8759 |
314 |
Euxylophora |
Huber |
Brazilian
Satinwood |
1 |
Brazil: Amazon |
|
|
Only 1 species.
Clear yellow timber for flooring, furniture, etc. |
| 8760 |
314 |
Euxylophora |
Huber |
Brazilian
Satinwood |
1 |
Brazil: Lower
Amazon regiom |
|
|
Only 1 species.
Clear yellow timber for flooring, furniture, etc. |
| 6105 |
132 |
Excoecaria |
|
|
44 |
Old World
tropics to the Pacific |
|
|
Has Wood |
| 7663 |
305 |
Exostema |
|
|
|
U.S., Mexico,
Caribbean, S.E. Asia, Peru |
|
Saxifragaceae |
Has wood. |
| 6644 |
151 |
Fagraea |
Thunb. |
| | |