Antiaris

Taxobox
name = "Antiaris"


image_width =
image_caption =
regnum = Plantae
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]
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
"See text"

"Antiaris" is a tropical genus of latex producing evergreen trees in the Moraceae or fig family.

Some species include:

*"Antiaris africana" Engl., an economic hardwood of Africa, an African species which grows in the drier forests 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 of South East Asia with latex used to make an arrow 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