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Taxon: Malpighia glabra L.

Genus: Malpighia
Family: Malpighiaceae.
Nomen number: 23206
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:425. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: non Malpighia glabra hort., pro parte (= M. emarginata DC.)
Name verified on: 22-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 11-Feb-2007
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Hilo (HILO).
Accessions: 13 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • dwarf Barbados-cherry   (Source: web document) – English
  • escobillo   (Source: W.R. Anderson, p.c.) – Spanish
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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
    South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
    Northern Mexico: Mexico - Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas
    Central Mexico: Mexico - Guerrero, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Veracruz
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Yucatan; Nicaragua; Panama
    Caribbean: Cuba; Haiti; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Netherlands Antilles
    Northern South America: French Guiana; Venezuela
    Brazil: Brazil - Bahia
    Western South America: Colombia; Peru

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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Malpighia glabra L.:

  • New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

  • Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?23206 (09 February 2010)

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