Taxon: Plinia cauliflora (Mart.) Kausel

Common names:

• Brazilian grapetree   (Source: Dict Gard [as Myrciaria cauliflora]) – English
  
• jaboticaba   (Source: World Econ Pl [as Myrciaria cauliflora]) – English
  
• jabuticaba   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Myrciaria jaboticaba]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jabuticaba-açu   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Myrciaria jaboticaba]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jabuticaba-de-sabará   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Myrciaria jaboticaba]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jabuticaba-murta   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Myrciaria jaboticaba]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jabuticaba-paulista   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Myrciaria jaboticaba]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jabuticabeira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Myrciaria jaboticaba]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• stamjaboticaba   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais [s.], Parana, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo

References:

• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2008. World checklist of Myrtaceae.
• Wilson, P. G. 2011. Review of Myrtaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Plinia cauliflora.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Plinia cauliflora.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Plinia cauliflora.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Eugenia cauliflora (Mart.) DC.
  
• (=) Eugenia jaboticaba Kiaersk.
  
• (=) Myrcia jaboticaba Baill.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Myrciaria cauliflora (Mart.) O. Berg
  (previously associated with 39 accessions)
• (=) Myrciaria jaboticaba (Vell.) O. Berg
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (≡) Myrtus cauliflora Mart. (basionym)
  
• (=) Myrtus jaboticaba Vell.
  

Check other web resources for Plinia cauliflora (Mart.) Kausel:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• 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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