Terminalia (plant)
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]
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Scientific classification 
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Selected speciesEdit
Terminalia argentea flowers
Terminalia arjuna flowers
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Terminalia bellirica fruit
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Terminalia catappa flowers with a hoverfly - a close up
Terminalia porphyrocarpa foliage and flowers
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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Genus: Terminalia L." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-04-18. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Terminalia L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archived from the original on 29 January 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
- ↑ "Terminalia catappa - Plant Finder". www.missouribotanicalgarden.org. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.