Taxon: Sideroxylon foetidissimum Jacq.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Sideroxylon foetidissimum subsp. foetidissimum (no accessions)

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:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Guatemala; Mexico - Campeche, Quintana Roo
  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

References:

• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2001. World checklist and bibliography of Sapotaceae. (L 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. (New World Fruits)
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US) [= Mastichodendron foetidissimum].
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
• Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:162.
• Pennington, T. D. 1991. The genera of the Sapotaceae. (Gen Sapot)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sideroxylon foetidissimum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sideroxylon foetidissimum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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 databases for Sideroxylon foetidissimum Jacq.:

• 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
• 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.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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