Ziziphus is a genus of spiny shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae. It includes 68 species native to tropical and subtropical Africa, Eurasia, and Australia and tropical South America. The leaves are alternate, entire, with three prominent basal veins, and often aromatic. The flowers are small, inconspicuous yellow-green. The fruit is an edible drupe, often very sweet and sugary, reminiscent of a date in texture and flavour.
Olea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae. It includes 12 species native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Middle East, southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia, and Australasia. They are evergreen trees and shrubs, with small, opposite, entire leaves. The fruit is a drupe. Leaves of Olea contain trichosclereids.
Agarwood, aloeswood, eaglewood, gharuwood or the Wood of Gods, most commonly referred to as oud or oudh, is a fragrant, dark and resinous wood used in incense, perfume, and small hand carvings. It forms in the heartwood of Aquilaria trees after they become infected with a type of Phaeoacremonium mold, P. parasitica. The tree defensively secretes a resin to combat the fungal infestation. Prior to becoming infected, the heartwood mostly lacks scent, and is relatively light and pale in colouration. However, as the infection advances and the tree produces its fragrant resin as a final option of defense, the heartwood becomes very dense, dark, and saturated with resin. This product is harvested, and most famously referred to in cosmetics under the scent names of oud, oodh or aguru; however, it is also called aloes, agar, as well as gaharu or jinko. With thousands of years of known use, and valued across Muslim, Christian, and Hindu communities, oud is prized in Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures for its distinctive fragrance, utilized in colognes, incense and perfumes.
Palaquium is a genus of about 120 species of trees in the family Sapotaceae. Their range is from India across Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, and Australasia, to the western Pacific Islands.
Elaeocarpus is a genus of nearly five hundred species of flowering plants in the family Elaeocarpaceae native to the Western Indian Ocean, Tropical and Subtropical Asia, and the Pacific. Plants in the genus Elaeocarpus are trees or shrubs with simple leaves, flowers with four or five petals usually, and usually blue fruit.
Gonystylus is a southeast Asian genus of about 30 species of hardwood trees also known as ramin, melawis (Malay) and ramin telur (Sarawak).
Chionanthus, common name: fringetrees, is a genus of about 140 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae.
Actinodaphne is an Asian genus of flowering plants in the laurel family (Lauraceae). It contains approximately 125 species of dioecious evergreen trees and shrubs.
Aquilaria crassna is a species of plant in the Thymelaeaceae family. It is critically endangered and native to Southeast Asia.
Aquilaria malaccensis is a species of plant in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, also Thailand. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Aquilaria sinensis, known as incense tree, is a species of plant in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is endemic to China. It is threatened by habitat loss. This medicinal plant is a source of fragrant wood, formed under a pathological condition, called agarwood.
Gymnostachyum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 50 species native to tropical Asia, ranging from the Indian subcontinent through Indochina to southern China, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, and the Philippines.
Kibatalia is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Apocynaceae, tribe Malouetieae, first described as a genus in 1826. It was initially called Hasseltia, but this turned out to be an illegitimate homonym. So Kibatalia was chosen as a replacement name. Kibatalia is native to China and Southeast Asia.
- Kibatalia arborea(Blume) G.Don – Thailand, Philippines, W Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi
- Kibatalia blancoi(Rolfe ex Stapf) Merr. – Philippines
- Kibatalia borneensis(Stapf) Merr. – Sarawak
- Kibatalia elmeriWoodson – Luzon
- Kibatalia gitingensis(Elmer) Woodson – Philippines
- Kibatalia laurifolia(Ridl.) Woodson – Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, W Malaysia
- Kibatalia longifoliaMerr. – Mindanao
- Kibatalia macgregori(Elmer) Woodson – Sibuyan
- Kibatalia macrophylla(Pierre ex Hua) Woodson – Yunnan, Indochina
- Kibatalia maingayi(Hook.f.) Woodson – Thailand, W Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Mindanao
- Kibatalia merrillianaWoodson – Leyte, Samar
- Kibatalia puberulaMerr. – Samar in Philippines
- Kibatalia stenopetalaMerr. – Luzon, Dinagat, Mindanao
- Kibatalia villosaRudjiman – W Malaysia, Borneo
- Kibatalia wigmani(Koord.) Merr. – Sulawesi
- Kibatalia africana(Benth.) Merr. = Funtumia africana(Benth.) Stapf
- Kibatalia elastica(Preuss) Merr. = Funtumia elastica(Preuss) Stapf
- Kibatalia latifolia(Stapf) Merr. = Funtumia africana(Benth.) Stapf
- Kibatalia scheffieri(K.Schum.) Merr. = Funtumia africana(Benth.) Stapf
- Kibatalia zenkeri(K.Schum.) Merr. = Funtumia africana(Benth.) Stapf
Madhuca is a genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae first described as a genus in 1791.
Microtropis is a genus of plant in the family Celastraceae. There are about 70 species. They are trees and shrubs, evergreen or deciduous, with oppositely arranged leaves and white or yellowish flowers. Microtropis are distributed in Asia, Africa, and Central America.
Ventilago is a genus of plants in the family Rhamnaceae. It includes about 40 species found in the tropics of South and SE Asia, Australasia, with one species each in Africa and Madagascar.
Salacia is a genus of plants in the family Celastraceae. They are woody climbers naturally found in tropical regions.
Gyrinops is a genus of nine species of trees, called lign aloes or lign-aloes trees, in the family Thymelaeaceae. They are native to Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and New Guinea.
Callicarpa (beautyberry) is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the family Lamiaceae. They are native to east and southeast Asia, Australia, Madagascar, south-eastern North America and South America.
Erycibe is a genus of plants in the family Convolvulaceae, found in the Andaman Islands, Sri Lanka, India including Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, east Himalaya, southern and southeastern China including Hainan and Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, Australia, and Japan including the Ryukyu Islands.
