Cananga


Cananga is a small genus of trees in the family Annonaceae: native to Indo-China and Malesia, bit introduced elsewhere. One of its species, Cananga odorata, is important as the source of the perfume ylang-ylang.

Species

Two species are recognized:
Cananga latifolia is listed as a separate species in some sources, but the basionym, Unona latifolia
Hook.f. & Thomson, is a later homonym of Unona latifolia Dunal and so is not an acceptable name. Unona brandisiana was explicitly proposed as a replacement name.