''Sclerocarya'' is a genus of

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

s in the family ''

Anacardiaceae The Anacardiaceae, commonly known as the cashew family or sumac family, are a family of flowering plants, including about 83 genera with about 860 known species. Members of the Anacardiaceae bear fruits that are drupes and in some cases produce ...

''. There are two species: * ''

Sclerocarya birrea ''Sclerocarya birrea'' ( , meaning "hard", and , "nut", in reference to the stone inside the fleshy fruit), commonly known as the marula, is a medium-sized deciduous fruit-bearing tree, indigenous to the miombo woodlands of Southern Afric ...

'' (A.Rich.) Hochst. — sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar ::''S. birrea'' subsp. ''afra'' (Sond.) Kokwaro ::''S. birrea'' subsp. ''multifoliolata'' (Engl.) Kokwaro ::''S. birrea'' subsp. ''birrea'' * '' Sclerocarya gillettii'' Kokwaro — eastern Kenya

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Anacardiaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Flora of the Afrotropical realm Taxa named by Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter {{Anacardiaceae-stub