Taxon: Malpighia emarginata DC.

Common names:

• acerola   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Barbados-cherry   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• West Indian-cherry   (Source: F LAnt ) – English
  
• cerise de Cayenne   (Source: F LAnt ) – French
  
• cerisier de Barbade   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. glabra]) – French
  
• cerisier des Antilles   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. glabra]) – French
  
• Barbadoskirsche   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. glabra]) – German
  
• westindische Kirsche   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. glabra]) – German
  
• cerejeira-das-Antilhas   (Source: Portuguese Dict ) – Portuguese
  
• grosella   (Source: F Panama ) – Spanish (Panama)
  
• barbadoskörsbär   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide F LAnt; L Edible Pl)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Guerrero, Oaxaca, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Guatemala
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Venezuela
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Western South America: Peru

• widely cultivated in tropics & subtropics

• exact native range in neotropics obscure

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. [cultivated].
• Edições Melhoramentes. 1979. The new Michaelis illustrated dictionary (Novo Michaelis dicionário ilustrado), ed. 22/24.
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica. [mentions].
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. [lists as M. emarginata Sessé & Moç.].
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Meyer, F. K. 2000. Revision der gattung Malpighia L. (Malpighiaceae). Phanerog. Monogr. 23:226.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. [= M. glabra & M. punicifolia].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. [= M. glabra].
• Schreckinger, M. E. et al. 2010. Berries from South America: A comprehensive review on chemistry, health potential, and commercialization. J. Med. Food 13:233–246.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 2:198–199. [= M. glabra].
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Malpighia emarginata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Malpighia emarginata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Malpighia emarginata.

Synonyms:

• (=) Malpighia glabra hort., pro parte
  
• (=) Malpighia punicifolia auct.
  
• (=) Malpighia retusa Benth.
  

Check other web resources for Malpighia emarginata DC.:

• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• 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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