Astronium

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Astronium graveolens 14zz.jpg |image_caption = ''Astronium graveolens'' |taxon = Astronium |authority = Jacq.<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1108 |title=''Astronium'' Jacq. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2009-11-23 |access-date=2010-02-12}}</ref> |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text. }}

'''''Astronium''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. It is native to Central and South America.

''Astronium'' is a genus of dioecious trees. Leaves are deciduous, alternate, and odd-pinnate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anacardiaceae.org/anacardiaceae/a-genera/astronium/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104233013/http://www.anacardiaceae.org/anacardiaceae/a-genera/astronium/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 4, 2015|title=''Astronium'' Jacq.|work=Anacardiaceae and Burseraceae molecular systematics and taxonomic research|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref>

==Species== {{As of|2021|September}}, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:<ref name="POWO_1749-1">{{citation |title=''Astronium'' Jacq. |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1749-1 |access-date=2021-09-02 }}</ref> *''Astronium concinnum'' Schott *''Astronium fraxinifolium'' Schott *''Astronium gardneri'' Mattick *''Astronium glaziovii'' Mattick *''Astronium graveolens'' Jacq. (syn. ''Astronium conzattii'' S.F.Blake) *''Astronium lecointei'' Ducke *''Astronium mirandae'' F.A.Barkley *''Astronium nelson-rosae'' Santin *''Astronium obliquum'' Griseb. *''Astronium pumilum'' J.D.Mitch. & Daly *''Astronium ulei'' Mattick

Species formerly placed in this genus that are now placed in ''Myracrodruon'' include:<ref name="POWO_1863-1">{{citation |title=''Myracrodruon'' Allemão. |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1863-1 |access-date=2021-09-02 }}</ref> *''Astronium balansae'' Engl. → ''Myracrodruon balansae'' *''Astronium urundeuva'' → ''Myracrodruon urundeuva''

==Fossil record== Fossils of an ''Astronium'' sp. have been described from the fossil flora of Kızılcahamam district in Turkey, which is of early Pliocene age.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kasaplıgil |first1=Baki |title=Ankara, Kızılcahamam yakınındaki Güvem köyü civarında bulunan son tersiyer kozalaklı-yeşil yapraklı ormanı |journal=Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration |date=1977 |volume=88 |pages=94–102 |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/bulletinofmre/issue/3914/52153 |publisher=General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration |location=Ankara |language=tr, en |format=PDF |trans-title=A Late-Tertiary Conifer-Hardwood Forest From the Vicinity of Güvem Village, Near Kızılcahamam, Ankara}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *{{cite book |last=Pell |first=S. K. |first2=J.D. |last2=Mitchell |first3=A.J. |last3=Miller |first4=T.A. |last4=Lobova |year=2011 |editor-first= Klaus |editor-last=Kubitzki |chapter=Anacardiaceae |title=Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae |series=Flowering Plants. Eudicots, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants |volume=10 |pages=7–50 |publisher=Springer-Verlag |isbn=9783642143977 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_hHvYeQYTTEC&pg=PA7}} *{{cite journal |last=Santin |first=D.A. |first2=H.F. |last2=Leitão-Filho. |year=1991 |title=Restabelecimento e revisão taxonômica do gênero ''Myracrodruon'' Freire Allemão (Anacardiaceae) |journal=Revista Brasileira de Botânica |volume=14 |pages=133–45}}

Category:Astronium Category:Anacardiaceae genera Category:Taxa named by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin Category:Dioecious plants