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

Meliaceae Meliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales. They are characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules, and by syncarp ...

, containing at least three species. The species ''

Lansium parasiticum ''Lansium parasiticum'', commonly known as langsat (), lanzones (), or longkong in English; duku in Indonesian language, Indonesian or dokong in Terengganu Malay, is a species of tree in the Meliaceae, Mahogany family with commercially cultiv ...

'' (synonym ''L. domesticum'' Corrêa) is a tropical fruit-bearing tree that is cultivated in tropical Southeast Asia, and on a much smaller scale elsewhere in the tropics. Other previously named species are now placed in the genera ''

Aglaia ''Aglaia'' is a genus of 117 species of woody dioecious trees belonging to the Mahogany family (Meliaceae). These trees occur in the subtropical and tropical forests of Southeast Asia, Northern Australia and the Pacific. Some species are impo ...

'' and '' Reinwardtiodendron''.

Taxonomy and related genera

The genus was named in 1807 by the Portuguese botanist José Francisco Corrêa da Serra. As of 2021, the

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recognizes three species of ''Lansium''. *'' Lansium breviracemosum'' Kosterm. *''

Lansium domesticum ''Lansium parasiticum'', commonly known as langsat (), lanzones (), or longkong in English; duku in Indonesian language, Indonesian or dokong in Terengganu Malay, is a species of tree in the Meliaceae, Mahogany family with commercially cultiv ...

'' Corrêa *'' Lansium membranaceum'' (Kosterm.) Mabb. Phylogenetic studies suggest the following relationships amongst closely related genera:

References

Meliaceae Monotypic Sapindales genera Meliaceae genera {{Meliaceae-stub