See text Buchanania is a genus of plants in the mango and cashew family Anacardiaceae, native to areas from India to southern China, and southwards to northern Australia and the western Pacific.

[1][2] This genus consists of trees with simple, unlobed leaves arranged alternately on the twigs.

Fruits are more or less lens-shaped drupes with a bony or woody endocarp, and contain a single seed.

[5]: 195 The genus Buchanania was erected in 1801 by German botanist Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel based on a collection of plant material by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton from what is now Myanmar.

[3][6] The genus is native to areas from South and Southeast Asia, extending to northern Australia and the western Pacific.