Taxon: Psidium cattleyanum Sabine

• named for William Cattley
• epithet correctable to "cattleyanum" in accordance with Melbourne ICN Art. 60.7 and Ex. 17
• for dating of this reference see J Arn Arb 27:314. 1946

See also subordinate taxa:

• Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum forma lucidum (1 accessions)
• Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum (1 accessions)
• Psidium cattleyanum var. littorale (no accessions)

Common names:

• Cattley guava   (Source: Dict Gard [as P. littorale var. longipes]) – English   [Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum]
  
• cherry guava   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Chinese strawberry guava   (Source: Cornucopia [as P. littorale]) – English   [Psidium cattleyanum var. littorale]
  
• purple guava   (Source: Dict Gard [as P. littorale var. longipes]) – English   [Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum]
  
• purple strawberry guava   (Source: Dict Gard [as P. littorale var. longipes]) – English   [Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum]
  
• red strawberry guava   (Source: Cornucopia [as P. littorale var. longipes]) – English   [Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum]
  
• strawberry guava   (Source: Dict Econ Pl ) – English
  
• strawberry guava   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English   [Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum]
  
• strawberry guava   (Source: Rep NCEPPC ) – English   [Psidium cattleyanum var. littorale]
  
• yellow Cattley guava   (Source: Dict Gard [as P. littorale var. littorale]) – English   [Psidium cattleyanum var. littorale]
  
• yellow strawberry guava   (Source: Cornucopia [as P. littorale]) – English   [Psidium cattleyanum var. littorale]
  
• yellow strawberry guava   (Source: Fosberg 1962) – English   [Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum forma lucidum]
  
• aarbei koejawel   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• goyave fraise   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum]
  
• Erdbeerguave   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum]
  
• waiawi   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – Hawaiian   [Psidium cattleyanum var. littorale]
  
• araçá-da-praia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• araçá-de-comer   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• araçá-de-coroa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• araçá-do-campo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• araçá-do-mato   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• guayabo pequeño   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum]
  
• gul smultronguava   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish   [Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum forma lucidum]
  
• smultronguava   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil [e.]
  Southern South America: Uruguay [n.e.]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Southern Africa: South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion; Seychelles
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.e.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia

• also cultivated

References:

• Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. ["cattleyanum"].
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Fosberg, F. R. 1962. Miscellaneous notes on Hawaiian plants-3. Occas. Pap. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 23:37.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [= P. littorale var. littorale].
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= P. littorale var. longipes (O. Berg) Fosb.].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1969. Myrtaceae. In "The botany of the Guayana Highland - Part VIII" by B. Maguire and collaborators. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 18(2):251.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
• Schroeder, C. A. 1946. Priority of the species Psidium cattleianum Sabine. J. Arnold Arbor. 27:314.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands.
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wilson, P. G. 2011. Review of Myrtaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm. ["cattleyanum"].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Psidium cattleyanum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Psidium cattleyanum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Psidium cattleyanum.

Synonyms:

• Psidium cattleyanum var. longipes auct. [= Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum]
  
• Psidium coriaceum var. longipes O. Berg [= Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum]
  
• (=) Psidium humile Vell.
  
• Psidium littorale Raddi [≡ Psidium cattleyanum var. littorale]
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• Psidium littorale var. longipes (O. Berg) Fosberg [= Psidium cattleyanum var. cattleyanum]
  

Check other web resources for Psidium cattleyanum Sabine:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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