Carapa procera, called African crabwood, is a species of tree in the genus Carapa, native to the West African tropics and to the Amazon rainforest, and introduced to Vietnam.[2] Some authorities have split off the South American population into its own species, Carapa surinamensis.[3] The nuts are intensively collected in the wild for their oil, a non-timber forest product.[4] In tropical Africa, the species is increasingly threatened.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Meliaceae |
| Genus: | Carapa |
| Species: | C. procera
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References
edit- ^ Prodr. 1: 626 (1824)
- ^ a b "Carapa procera DC". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ "Carapa surinamensis Miq". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ Forget, Pierre-Michel; Jansen, Patrick A. (2007). "Hunting Increases Dispersal Limitation in the Tree Carapa procera, a Nontimber Forest Product". Conservation Biology. 21 (1): 106–113. Bibcode:2007ConBi..21..106F. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00590.x. PMID 17298516. S2CID 6254866.
- ^ Fanta Reine Sheirita Tiétiambou; Kolawolé Valère Salako; Jésukpégo Roméo Tohoun; Amadé Ouédraogo (23 July 2020). "Local preferences for three indigenous oil-seed plants and attitudes towards their conservation in the Kénédougou province of Burkina Faso, West-Africa". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 16 (1): 43. doi:10.1186/S13002-020-00393-1. ISSN 1746-4269. PMC 7376732. PMID 32703227. Wikidata Q97679959. (erratum)