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Taxon: Spondias mombin L.

Genus: Spondias
Family: Anacardiaceae subfamily: Spondioideae.
Nomen number: 35334
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:371. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 10-Jan-2000 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 10-Jan-2000
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • hog-plum   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • Jamaica-plum   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  • yellow mombin   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • mombin   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • prunier mombin   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • gelbe Mombinpflaume   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • Gelbpflaume   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  • imbu   (Source: Portuguese Dict ) – Portuguese
  • tepereba   (Source: J. D. Mitchell, p.c.) – Portuguese
  • cajá-mirim   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • taperebá   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • ubos   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  • jobo   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – Spanish (Caribbean)
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Mexico [tropical]
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama
    Northern South America: Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
    Brazil: Brazil
    Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
    Southern South America: Paraguay

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated in paleotropics

      Other:
  • native range in West Indies obscure

References:

  • Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
  • Barfod, A. S. 1987. Flora of Ecuador. (F Ecuador) 30:36–38.
  • Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal. (F Senegal)
  • Croat, T. B. 1974. A reconsideration of Spondias mombin L. (Anacardiaceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 61:483–490.
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
  • Edições Melhoramentes. 1979. Pietzschke, F., ed.
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae. (L Micrones)
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). (ICBN St Louis) Art. 23.2, Ex. 1.
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • IPGRI. New World Fruits Database - on-line resource. (New World Fruits)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Mitchell, J. D. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Robyns, W. et al., eds. 1948–63. Flore du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi. (F CongoRB)
  • Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. (Names Soukup)
  • Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
  • Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
  • Vasquez, R. & A. H. Gentry. 1989. Use and misuse of forest-harvested fruits in the Iquitos area. Conservation Biol. 3:350–361. [commercially important in Iquitos, Peru].
  • Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
  • Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Spondias mombin L.:

  • Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • 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.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?35334 (09 February 2010)

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