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Genus: Swietenia
Family: Meliaceae.
Nomen number: 35956
Place of publication: Enum. syst. pl. 20. 1760 (Select. stirp. amer. hist. 127. 1763)
Name verified on: 17-Feb-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 05-Mar-2003
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions:
2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES OF CONSERVATION CONCERN BECAUSE RARE OR ENDANGERED
Species on the following lists:
- Cuban mahogany (Source: F Neotrop
28:404.) – English
- Spanish mahogany (Source: F Neotrop
28:404.) – English
- West Indian mahogany (Source: F Neotrop
28:404.) – English
- acajou d'ameérique (Source: J.-G. Fouché) – French
- Mahogany d' Amérique (Source: Zander ed17
) – French
- mogno (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- mogno-de-folhas-pequenas (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- mogno-do-Caribe (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- mogno-verdadeiro (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- More:
- Materials: wood (fide F Males 12:18. 1995, original source of mahogany)
- Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide Lampe & McCann)
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
Naturalized: - naturalized elsewhere in West Indies
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
- Boutelje, J. B.
1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
- Fouché, J.-G.
1999. pers. comm. [re. French common names].
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Howard, R. A.
1973. The Enumeratio and Selectarum of Nicolaus von Jacquin.
J. Arnold Arbor.
54:435–470.
- Little, E. L., Jr.
1978. Important forest trees of the United States. (AH 519)
- Luna, R. K.
1996. Plantation trees. (Plantation Trees)
- Pennington, T. D. & B. T. Styles.
1981. Meliaceae.
In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr.
28:401–405.
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds.
1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
5(1):447.
- Uphof, J. C. T.
1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq.:
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- 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.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- 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.
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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?35956 (09 February 2010)
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