- Antiaris
Taxobox
name = "Antiaris"
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regnum =Plant ae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis =Magnoliopsida
ordo =Rosales
familia =Moraceae
genus = "Antiaris"
genus_authority = Lesch. [cite web|title = IPNI|url = http://ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=8CAE69FC62A19634FF3AFEA9553117EA?find_family=&find_genus=Antiaris&find_species=&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch | accessdate = 2008-05-02]
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"See text""Antiaris" is a
tropical genus oflatex producingevergreen tree s in theMoraceae or fig family.Some species include:
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Antiaris africana " Engl., an economic hardwood ofAfrica , an African species which grows in the drierforest s of the tropics. [cite journal|last = Lawson|first = G. W.|coauthors = K. O. Armstrong-Mensah, and J. B. Hall|title = A Catena in Tropical Moist Semi-Deciduous Forest Near Kade, Ghana|journal = The Journal of Ecology|volume = 58|issue = 2|date = 1970-07|pages = 371–398|accessdate = 2008-05-02|doi = 10.2307/2258277]
*"Antiaris toxicaria " Lesch., the upas tree ofSouth East Asia withlatex used to make anarrow poison
*"Antiaris welwitschii " Engl., or bark-cloth tree [cite book|last = Chazdon|first = Robin L.|coauthors = T. C. Whitmore (editors)|title=Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology: Classic Papers with Commentaries|isbn = 0226102246|publisher = Chicago ; The University of Chicago Press, 2002.]References
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