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Genus of flowering plants
Terminalia is a
genus of large trees of the
flowering plant family
Combretaceae , comprising nearly 300
species distributed in
tropical regions of the world.
[2] The genus name derives from the
Latin word terminus , referring to the fact that the leaves appear at the very tips of the shoots.
[3]
Selected species
Terminalia argentea flowers
Terminalia arjuna flowers
Terminalia bellirica fruit
Terminalia catappa flowers with a hoverfly - a close up
Terminalia pallida in
Talakona forest,
Chittoor District ,
Andhra Pradesh , India
Terminalia porphyrocarpa foliage and flowers
Terminalia mantaly street tree in
Hong Kong
There are 282 accepted Terminalia species as of April 2021 according to
Plants of the World Online .
[2] Selected species include:
Terminalia acuminata (Fr. Allem.) Eichl.
Terminalia albida Scott-Elliot
Terminalia amazonia (J.F.Gmel.) Exell – white olive
Terminalia arbuscula Sw.
Terminalia archipelagi Coode
Terminalia arjuna (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Arn. – arjuna, koha, white marudah
Terminalia arostrata Ewart & O.B.Davies – crocodile tree
Terminalia australis Cambess – palo amarillo, tanimbú
Terminalia avicennioides Guill. & Perr.
Terminalia bellirica (Gaertn.) Roxb. – beleric
Terminalia bialata (Roxb.) Steud. – Indian silver greywood, silver greywood
Terminalia buceras (L.) C.Wright
Terminalia bucidoides Standley & L.O.Williams
Terminalia bursarina – Bendee
Terminalia calamansanai (Blanco) Rolfe
Terminalia cambodiana Gagnep.
Terminalia canescens (DC.) Radlk. – jalool
Terminalia carolinensis Kaneh.
Terminalia catappa L. – Indian almond, tropical almond, umbrella tree
Terminalia chebula Retz. – black myrobalan, chebulic myrobalan, inknut
Terminalia cherrieri McKee
Terminalia circumalata F.Muell.
Terminalia cunninghamii C.A.Gardner – Pindan quondong
Terminalia eddowesii Coode
Terminalia engleri Gere & Boatwr. – terenifù (West Africa to
Cameroon )
Terminalia elliptica Willd. – Indian-laurel
Terminalia eriostachya A.Rich.
Terminalia ferdinandiana Exell – billygoat plum, Kakadu plum, gubinge
Terminalia fitzgeraldii C.A.Gardner
Terminalia glabrata G.Forst.
Terminalia grandiflora Benth.
Terminalia hadleyana W.Fitzg.
Terminalia ivorensis A.Chev. – idigbo, black afara, blackbark, brimstone wood, shingle wood
Terminalia januariensis DC.
Terminalia kaernbachii Warb. – okari nut
Terminalia kangeanensis Slooten
Terminalia kuhlmannii Alwan & Stace
Terminalia kumpaja R.L.Barrett
Terminalia latifolia Sw.
Terminalia latipes Benth.
Terminalia littoralis L.
Terminalia macroptera Guill. & Perr.
Terminalia microcarpa Decne.
Terminalia muelleri Benth. – Australian almond
Terminalia myriocarpa Van Heurck & Müll.Arg.
Terminalia neotaliala – Madagascar almond tree
Terminalia nigrovenulosa Pierre
Terminalia nitens C.Presl
Terminalia novocaledonica Däniker
Terminalia oblongata F.Muell.
Terminalia paniculata Roth
Terminalia parviflora Thwaites
Terminalia pellucida C.Presl
Terminalia petiolaris Benth. – marool
Terminalia phillyreifolia (Van Heurck & Müll.Arg.) Gere & Boatwr.
Terminalia platyphylla F.Muell.
Terminalia platyptera F.Muell.
Terminalia porphyrocarpa F.Muell. ex Benth.
Terminalia reitzii Excell
Terminalia rerei Coode
Terminalia richii A.Gray
Terminalia schimperiana Hochst.
Terminalia sericea Burch. ex DC. – silver terminalia
Terminalia superba Engl. & Diels – limba
Terminalia volucris Benth.
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