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Genus of flowering plants From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cananga (ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kanaŋa)[2] is a small genus of trees in the family Annonaceae, native to Indo-China and Malesia, but introduced elsewhere.[3] One of its species, Cananga odorata, is important as the source of the perfume ylang-ylang.[4]
Cananga | |
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Cananga odorata, leaves and flowers | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Magnoliales |
Family: | Annonaceae |
Subfamily: | Ambavioideae |
Genus: | Cananga (DC.) Hook.f. & Thomson, nom. cons.[1] |
Two species are recognized:[3][5]
Cananga latifolia is listed as a separate species in some sources,[6] but the basionym, Unona latifolia Hook.f. & Thomson, is a later homonym of Unona latifolia Dunal and so is not an acceptable name. Unona brandisiana was explicitly proposed as a replacement name.[5]
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