Sideroxylon foetidissimum information from NPGS/GRIN

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Taxon: Sideroxylon foetidissimum Jacq.

Genus: Sideroxylon
Family: Sapotaceae subfamily: Sapotoideae tribe: Sideroxyleae.
Nomen number: 312826
Place of publication: Enum. syst. pl. 15. 1760 (Select. stirp. amer. hist. 55. 1763)
Name verified on: 17-Nov-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 04-Aug-2006
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

Barbados-mastic (Source: Pl Book ) – English
false mastic (Source: Trees US [as Mastichodendron foetidissimum]) – English

Economic importance:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

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)
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Quintana Roo
SOUTHERN AMERICA
Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua; Bahamas; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Puerto Rico; Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad; Virgin Islands (British) - Tortola; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. Croix
Mesoamerica: Belize; Guatemala

References:

Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2001. World checklist and bibliography of Sapotaceae.
Howard, R. A. 1973. The Enumeratio and Selectarum of Nicolaus von Jacquin. J. Arnold Arbor. 54:435–470.
IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. [= Mastichodendron foetidissimum].
Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:162.
Pennington, T. D. 1991. The genera of the Sapotaceae.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sideroxylon foetidissimum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sideroxylon foetidissimum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sideroxylon foetidissimum.

Synonyms:

Mastichodendron foetidissimum (Jacq.) H. J. Lam [≡ Sideroxylon foetidissimum subsp. foetidissimum]
(previously associated with 2 accessions)
Sideroxylon mastichodendron Jacq. [= Sideroxylon foetidissimum subsp. foetidissimum]

Check other web resources for Sideroxylon foetidissimum Jacq.:

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
New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
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.

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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?312826 (26 May 2013)

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