''Capurodendron'' is a genus of plants in the family

Sapotaceae 240px, '' Madhuca longifolia'' var. ''latifolia'' in Narsapur, Medak district, India The Sapotaceae are a family (biology), family of flowering plants belonging to the order (biology), order Ericales. The family includes about 800 species of ev ...

described by

André Aubréville André Aubréville (30 November 1897, in Pont-Saint-Vincent (Meurthe-et-Moselle) – 11 August 1982, in Paris) was a French botanist, professor at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and a member of the Academy of Sciences. He was th ...

in 1962.Tropicos, ''Capurodendron'' Aubrév.
/ref> The entire genus is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

, and with 33 described species and more than 20 new species still undescribed, it is the largest endemic genus of this island. The major part of its species are endangered or critically endangered of extinction by selective logging and the massive deforestation that Madagascar is suffering.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Aubréville, André. 1974. ''Capurodendron''. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores 164: 68-106
in French Capurodendron aubrevillei r

;Selected species

References

Sapotaceae genera Sapotoideae Endemic flora of Madagascar Taxa named by André Aubréville {{Sapotaceae-stub