{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Dimocarpus_longan_fruits.jpg |image_caption = ''[[Dimocarpus longan]]'' fruit |taxon = Dimocarpus |authority = [[João de Loureiro|Lour.]] (1790)<ref name=Fl.-Malesiana-1994/><ref name=GRIN/> |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = 7; see text |subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:36370-1 ''Dimocarpus'' Lour.] ''[[Plants of the World Online]]''. Retrieved 28 October 2023.</ref> |synonyms = ''Pseudonephelium'' {{small|Radlk. (1890)}} |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/> }}
'''''Dimocarpus''''' is a [[genus]] of trees or [[shrub]]s in the [[flowering plant]] family [[Sapindaceae]]. It includes 7 species which grow naturally in tropical south and [[Southeast Asia]], [[Malesia]], [[Papuasia]], and [[Australasia]], including [[Sri Lanka]], [[India]], the [[Philippines]], southern [[China]], [[Taiwan]], [[Myanmar]], [[Cambodia]], [[Vietnam]], [[Malaysia]], [[Indonesia]], [[New Guinea]], [[East Timor]], far north-eastern [[Queensland]], Australia.<ref name = powo/>
The [[fruit]] is edible, with the [[longan]] (''D. longan'') being grown commercially for fruit production.
The species are large [[evergreen]] [[tree]]s growing to 25–40 m tall, with [[pinnate]] [[leaf|leaves]]. The [[flower]]s are individually inconspicuous, produced in large [[panicle]]s. The fruit is an oval [[drupe]] 3–5 cm long containing a single [[seed]] surrounded by a translucent crisp, juicy layer of fruit pulp and a thin but hard orange or red skin.
==Species== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |||''[[Dimocarpus australianus]]'' {{small|Leenh.}} || ||Cape York Peninsula, Australia |- |||''[[Dimocarpus dentatus]]'' {{small|Meijer ex Leenh.}} || ||Malaysia, Sabah |- |||''[[Dimocarpus foveolatus]]'' {{small|(Radlk.) Leenh.}} || || Philippines (Luzon, Panay, Samar) |- |||''[[Dimocarpus fumatus]]'' {{small|(Blume) Leenh.}} || ||S and SE Asia from Sri Lanka and India to E Malesia;<br />''[[Dimocarpus confinis|D. fumatus subsp. indochinensis]]'' in China and Vietnam |- |||''[[Dimocarpus gardneri]]'' {{small|(Thwaites) Leenh.}} || || Sri Lanka. |- |[[File:Vườn nhãn.JPG|120px]]||''[[Dimocarpus longan]]'' {{small|Lour.}} || Longan || China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand |- |[[File:Dimocarpus longan males F 070203 035 ime ed.jpg|120px]]||''[[Dimocarpus malesianus]]''<ref name="Lithanatudom Chaowasku Nantarat Jaroenkit 2021 p. ">{{cite journal | last1=Lithanatudom | first1=Suparat K. | last2=Chaowasku | first2=Tanawat | last3=Nantarat | first3=Nattawadee | last4=Jaroenkit | first4=Theeranuch | last5=Smith | first5=Duncan R. | last6=Lithanatudom | first6=Pathrapol | title=A First Phylogeny of the Genus Dimocarpus and Suggestions for Revision of Some Taxa Based on Molecular and Morphological Evidence | journal=Scientific Reports | volume=7 | date=2021-03-09 | issue=1 | pmid=28751754 | doi=10.1038/s41598-017-07045-7 | page=6716| pmc=5532229 | doi-access=free }}</ref> || Alupag || Sarawak, Malesia |- |||''[[Dimocarpus yunnanensis]]'' {{small|(W.T.Wang) C.Y.Wu & T.L.Ming}} || ||China |- |}
==References== {{Reflist | 27em | refs=
<ref name=Fl.-Malesiana-1994> {{Cite book | last1= Leenhouts | first1= Pieter W. | year= 1994 | contribution= ''Dimocarpus'' Lour. | contribution-url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28496630 | access-date= 5 Dec 2013 | title= Sapindaceae | editor1-last= Adema | editor1-first= F. | editor2-last= Leenhouts | editor2-first= P. W. | editor3-last= van Welzen | editor3-first= P. C. | volume= 11 | issue= pt. 3 | pages= 511–519 | work= [[Flora Malesiana]] | series= Series I, Spermatophyta : Flowering Plants | location= Leiden, The Netherlands | publisher= Rijksherbarium / Hortus Botanicus, Leiden University | isbn= 90-71236-21-8 }} </ref>
<ref name=GRIN> {{Cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?3723 |title=''Dimocarpus'' Lour. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2006-03-29 |access-date=2010-01-19}} </ref>
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==Further reading== * {{Cite journal | last1= Bean | first1= A. R. |date=March 2005 | title= The Taxonomic status of ''Dimocarpus leichhardtii'' (Benth.) S.T.Reynolds | journal= Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter | publisher= Australasian Systematic Botany Society Inc. | volume= 122 | issue= March | page= 7 | url= http://www.anbg.gov.au/asbs/newsletter/pdf/05-march-122.pdf | issn= 1034-1218 | access-date= 15 Dec 2013 }} *{{cite web |title=''Dimocarpus'' Lour. |work=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2906852}} *{{Commons category-inline}}
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[[Category:Dimocarpus| ]] [[Category:Sapindaceae genera]] [[Category:Taxa named by João de Loureiro]]