Taxon: Cecropia obtusifolia Bertol.

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Common names:

• trumpet   (Source: L Belize NY ) – English
  
• trumpet-tree   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• guaramo   (Source: L Belize NY ) – Spanish
  
• guarumbo   (Source: Trees Trop Mex ) – Spanish
  
• guarumo   (Source: Trees Trop Mex ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; L Belize NY)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tabasco, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador

• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands

References:

• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Berg, C. C. & P. Franco R. 2005. Cecropia. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 94:128–135.
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (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.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Pennington, T. D. & J. Sarukhan. 1968. Arboles tropicales de México.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cecropia obtusifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cecropia obtusifolia.

Check other web resources for Cecropia obtusifolia Bertol.:

• 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.

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