Taxon: Garcinia madruno (Kunth) Hammel

Common names:

• madruno   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Rheedia acuminata]) – French
  
• Marienbalsam   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Rheedia acuminata]) – German
  
• charichuelo   (Source: Trees Peru [as Rheedia acuminata]) – Spanish
  
• cozoiba   (Source: F VenGuay ) – Spanish
  
• madroño   (Source: F VenGuay ) – Spanish
  
• naranjita   (Source: F VenGuay ) – Spanish
  
• ocoró   (Source: Trees Bolivia [as Rheedia madruno]) – Spanish
  
• satro   (Source: Man CostaR ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide F VenGuay; Trees Bolivia, as Rheedia madruno)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; Nicaragua [s.e.]; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Acre, Amazonas, Bahia, Mato Grosso, Para, Tocantins
  Western South America: Bolivia - Beni, La Paz, Santa Cruz; Colombia; Ecuador - Carchi, Esmeraldas, Napo, Pastaza; Peru

• also cultivated

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Encarnación, F. 1983. Nomenclatura de las especies forestales comunes en el Perú. [= Rheedia acuminata].
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Jorgensen, P. M., ed. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia (Catalogue of vascular plants of Bolivia) (on-line resource).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Killeen, T. J. et al. 1993. Guia de arboles de Bolivia. [= Rheedia madruno].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. [= Rheedia acuminata].
• 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.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Garcinia madruno.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Garcinia madruno.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Garcinia madruno.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Calophyllum madruno Kunth (basionym)
  
• (=) Rheedia acuminata (Ruiz & Pav.) Planch. & Triana
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (≡) Rheedia madruno (Kunth) Planch. & Triana
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Verticillaria acuminata Ruiz & Pav.
  

Check other web resources for Garcinia madruno (Kunth) Hammel:

• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• 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.

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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