Taxon: Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq.

Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix II
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• 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'Amérique   (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)
  
• kubamahogny   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Materials: wood   (fide F Males 12:18. 1995, original source of mahogany)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Lampe & McCann)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Swietenia mahagoni from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies

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).
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• 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.
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• Luna, R. K. 1996. Plantation trees.
• Pennington, T. D. & B. T. Styles. 1981. Meliaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 28:401–405.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (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.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Swietenia mahagoni.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Swietenia mahagoni.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cedrela mahagoni L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Swietenia mahagoni (L.) 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
• 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.

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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