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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}<br />
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|image = Ackee 001.jpg<br />
|image_caption = ''[[Blighia sapida]]''<br />
|taxon = Blighia<br />
|authority = [[Charles Konig|K.D.Koenig]] (1806)<br />
|display_parents = 3<br />
|subdivision_ranks = Species<br />
|subdivision = 3; see text<br />
|subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:36302-1 ''Blighia'' K.D.Koenig]. ''[[Plants of the World Online]]''. Retrieved 28 October 2023.</ref><br />
|synonyms = <br />
*''Akea'' {{small|Stokes (1812)}}<br />
*''Akeesia'' {{small|Tussac (1808)}}<br />
*''Bonannia'' {{small|Raf. (1814)}}<br />
*''Phialodiscus'' <small>Radlk. (1879)</small><br />
|synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/><br />
}}<br />
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'''''Blighia''''' is a [[genus]] of three [[species]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[Sapindus|soapberry]] family, [[Sapindaceae]]. They are trees or large shrubs native to [[Tropics|tropical]] [[Africa]] from [[Guinea]] east to [[Kenya]], and south to [[Angola]] and [[KwaZulu-Natal]].<ref name = powo/> The [[fruit]] is partly edible, with the [[Ackee]] (''B. sapida'') being grown commercially for fruit production. The genus is named for Captain [[William Bligh]] (formerly of {{HMS|Bounty}}), who brought samples back to England.<br />
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The species are [[evergreen]] [[tree]]s growing to {{convert|10|–|20|m|ft|0}} tall, with [[pinnate]] [[leaf|leaves]]. The [[flower]]s are produced in small [[panicle]]s. The [[fruit]] is an oval [[Capsule (fruit)|capsule]] {{convert|4|–|8|cm|in|0}} long containing three [[seed]]s, each surrounded by an edible fleshy yellow aril, and a thick, leathery orange or red skin; the fruit apart from the aril is very poisonous.<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1514 |title=''Blighia'' K. D. Koenig |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2006-03-29 |access-date=2010-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506231540/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1514 |archive-date=2009-05-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Species==<br />
3 species are accepted:<ref name = powo/><br />
* ''[[Blighia sapida]]'' {{small|K.D.Koenig}} - Ackee<br />
* ''[[Blighia unijugata]]'' {{small|Baker}}<br />
* ''[[Blighia welwitschii]]'' {{small|(Hiern) Radlk.}}<br />
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