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Taxon: Avicennia germinans (L.) L.

Genus: Avicennia
Family: Acanthaceae subfamily: Avicennioideae. Also placed in: Avicenniaceae Verbenaceae
Nomen number: 70116
Place of publication: Sp. pl. ed. 3, 2:891. 1764
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 09-Mar-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Jul-1999
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • black mangrove   (Source: F Jam ) – English
  • mangle   (Source: F Veracruz ) – Spanish
  • mangle negro   (Source: F Veracruz ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • AFRICA
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon [w.]; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon [w.]; Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire [w.]
    West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire [s.]; Gambia [w.]; Ghana [s.]; Guinea [s.]; Guinea-Bissau [w.]; Mauritania [w.]; Nigeria [s.]; Senegal [w.]; Sierra Leone [s.]; Togo [s.]
  • NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
    Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
    South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
    Mexico [coasts]
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
    Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Bermuda; Cuba; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Vincent and Grenadines
    Northern South America: French Guiana [n.]; Guyana [n.]; Suriname [n.]; Venezuela [n.]
    Brazil: Brazil [n. & e.]
    Western South America: Colombia [n. & w.]; Ecuador [w.]; Peru - Tumbes

References:

  • Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
  • Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1961–. Flore du Gabon. (F Gabon)
  • Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flore du Cameroun. (F Cameroun)
  • Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
  • Brunel, J. F. et al., eds. 1984. Flore analytique du Togo. Phanerogames. (F Togo)
  • Compere, P. 1963. Taxon 12:150–152. [discusses nomenclature and authorship].
  • Dodd, R. S. et al. 2000. Evolutionary divergence in the pan-Atlantic mangrove Avicennia germinans. New Phytol. 145:115–125. [Old & New World representatives are distinct].
  • Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Gillis, W. T. 1974. Rhodora 76:113.
  • Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz. (F Veracruz)
  • Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas. (F Guianas) [lists as A. germinans (L.) Stearn].
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Keay, R. W. J. 1989. Trees of Nigeria. (Trees Nigeria)
  • Little, E. L. 1961. Phytologia 8:49. [lists as A. germinans L.; = A. nitida Jacq.].
  • Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
  • Stearn, W. T. 1958. Kew Bull. 33–37. [lists as A. germinans (L.) Stearn].
  • Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl) [= A. nitida Jacq.].
  • Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
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Check other databases for Avicennia germinans (L.) L.:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?70116 (09 February 2010)

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