Taxon:
Hymenaea courbaril L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:1192. 1753
Verified:
12/18/1987
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Hymenaea+courbaril&quantity=1
- Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
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Common names
English
amami-gum – Brazilian copal – South American-locust – West Indian-locust – French
caroubier de la Guyane – courbaril – German
Heuschreckenbaum – Portuguese
jataí – jatobá – jutaí – Portuguese (Brazil)
farinheira – jitaí – Spanish
copal – curbaril – guapinol – paquio – Swedish
jatoba –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Campeche | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Guerrero | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Jalisco | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Nayarit | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Oaxaca | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Amapá | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Amazonas | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Bahia | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Ceará | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Goiás | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Maranhão | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Mato Grosso | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Pará | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Paraíba | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Piauí | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Antigua and Barbuda | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Cuba | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Dominica | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Grenada | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Guadeloupe | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Hispaniola | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Jamaica | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Martinique | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Montserrat | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Lucia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Vincent and Grenadines | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | United States | Puerto Rico | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Central America | El Salvador | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Central America | Guatemala | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Central America | Honduras | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Central America | Panama | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | French Guiana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Guyana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Suriname | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Bolivia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | Loreto | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | Madre de Dios | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Northern America
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SOUTHERN MEXICO:
Mexico [Campeche, Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave]
Southern America
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CARIBBEAN:
Hispaniola, Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Montserrat, Martinique, United States [Puerto Rico], St. Vincent and Grenadines
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CENTRAL AMERICA:
Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
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BRAZIL:
Brazil [Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, Paraíba, Piauí, Amapá]
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Bolivia, Colombia, Peru [Loreto, Madre de Dios]
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Bee plants | honey production | | Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 18:82. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Environmental | agroforestry | | Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 18:82. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Human food | beverage base | | National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future |
Human food | fruit | | National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future |
Materials | beads | | Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource). URL: http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_81.html |
Materials | gum/resin | | Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 18:82. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Materials | wood | | Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 18:82. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Medicines | folklore | | Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 18:82. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |