Taxon: Swietenia macrophylla King

Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix II [populations of the neotropics]
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• Honduran mahogany   (Source: F Neotrop 28:400.) – English
  
• mahogany   (Source: F Ceylon ) – English
  
• aguano   (Source: F Neotrop 28:400.) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• araputanga   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• caóba   (Source: Use Pl Brazil ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cedro-í   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• mogno   (Source: F Neotrop 28:400.) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• mogno-brasileiro   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• caoba   (Source: F Neotrop 28:400.) – Spanish
  
• mara   (Source: F Neotrop 28:400.) – Spanish (Bolivia)
  
• aguano   (Source: F Neotrop 28:400.) – Spanish (Peru)
  
• hondurasmahogny   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Lamb & Lawrence 1993)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide F Neotrop 28:400. 1981; F Ceylon; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica - Guanacaste; Guatemala - Chimaltenango, Izabal, Peten; Honduras - Colon, Olancho; Nicaragua - Zelaya; Panama - Darien, Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Venezuela - Aragua, Barinas, Zulia
  Brazil: Brazil - Acre [n. & w.], Para
  Western South America: Bolivia - La Paz, Santa Cruz; Colombia - Bolivar; Peru - Huanuco, Loreto, San Martin

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Singapore
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

• also cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• 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).
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Gullison, R. E. et al. 2000. 'Marketing' species conservation. Nature 404:923–924.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Lamb, D. & P. Lawrence. 1993. Mixed species plantation using high value rainforest trees in Australia. In: Lieth, H & M. Lohmann, eds., Restoration of tropical forest ecosystems. 102.
• Luna, R. K. 1996. Plantation trees.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mors, W. B. & C. T. Rizzini. 1966. Useful Plants of Brazil. 127.
• Mors, W. T. & C. T. Rizzini. 1966. Useful plants of Brazil.
• Pennington, T. D. & B. T. Styles. 1981. Meliaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 28:395.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds. 1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 5(1):447.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Swietenia macrophylla.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Swietenia macrophylla.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Swietenia macrophylla.

Synonyms:

• (=) Swietenia candollei Pittier
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Swietenia macrophylla King:

• 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
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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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