''Balanites'' is an
Afrotropical
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...
,
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
and
Indomalayan genus of
flowering plants in the
caltrop family,
Zygophyllaceae. The name ''Balanites'' derives from the Greek word for an
acorn
The acorn, or oaknut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera ''Quercus'' and '' Lithocarpus'', in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains one seed (occasionally
two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and borne ...
and refers to the fruit, it was coined by
Alire Delile in 1813.
Species
The following species are included in the genus ''Balanites'':
* ''
Balanites aegyptiaca''
( L.) Delile
*''
Balanites angolensis''
(Welw.) Mildbr. & Schltr.
*''
Balanites glabra''
Mildbr. & Schltr.
* ''
Balanites maughamii''
Sprague
*''
Balanites pedicellaris''
Mildbr. & Schltr.
*''
Balanites rotundifolia''
(Tiegh.) Blatt.
* ''
Balanites roxburghii
''Balanites roxburghii'' is a spiny, evergreen tree. It is common in open sandy plains of the Indian peninsula, western Rajasthan, west Bengal, Maharashtra , Gujarat and drier parts of India. The specific epithet ''roxburghii'' refers to the ...
''
Planch.
*''
Balanites triflora''
Tiegh.
*''
Balanites wilsoniana''
Dawe & Sprague
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Rosid genera