Carapa

Accepted species 29 Documented here 1 Family Meliaceae

Accepted species 29 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Carapa guianensis Aubl. 20 documented
Carapa akuri Poncy, Forget & Kenfack 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa alticola Kenfack & Á.J.Pérez 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa amorphocarpa W.Palacios 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa angustifolia Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa batesii C.DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa cedrotagua Londoño-Ech., A.M.Trujillo & Jiménez-Mont. 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa dinklagei Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa gogo A.Chev. ex Kenfack 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa grandiflora Sprague 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa hygrophila Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa littoralis Kenfack 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa llanocarti Kenfack 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa longipetala Kenfack 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa macrantha Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa megistocarpa A.H.Gentry & Dodson 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa microcarpa A.Chev. 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa nicaraguensis C.DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa oreophila Kenfack 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa palustris (G.C.C.Gilbert) Kenfack 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa pariensis Kenfack 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa parviflora Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa planadensis Kenfack 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa procera DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa surinamensis Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa vasquezii Kenfack 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa velutina C.DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa wohllebenii Eb.Fisch., Killmann, Leh & S.B.Janssens 0 below the evidence gate
Carapa zemagoana Kenfack 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.