Taxon: Zanthoxylum flavum Vahl

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Common names:

• Jamaica satinwood   (Source: F Jam ) – English
  
• West Indian satinwood   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• yellow sanders   (Source: F LAnt ) – English
  
• yellow-sandalwood   (Source: F LAnt ) – English
  
• mamica-de-porca   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• tembetaria   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• västindiskt citronträd   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Materials: wood   (fide Ency WTimber)
  

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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 [Keys]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Bermuda; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. [= Fagara flava (Vahl) Krug & Urb.].
• 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).
• Boggan, J. et al. 1992. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas.
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Long, R. W. & O. Lakela. 1971. A flora of tropical Florida.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Zanthoxylum flavum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Zanthoxylum flavum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Zanthoxylum flavum.

Check other web resources for Zanthoxylum flavum Vahl:

• 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
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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