Taxon:
Paubrasilia echinata (Lam.) Gagnon et al.
Summary
Place of publication:
PhytoKeys 71:39. 2016
Verified:
08/10/2017
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Common names
English
Brazilwood – peachwood – Pernambuco-wood – Portuguese
pau-Brasil – pau-Pernambuco – Portuguese (Brazil)
brasileto – ibirapitanga – orabutã – pau-de-Pernambuco – pau-rosado – Swedish
bresilja –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Alagoas | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Bahia | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Espírito Santo | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Paraíba | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Pernambuco | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Rio Grande do Norte | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Santa Catarina | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Caribbean | Cuba | | |
Native
Southern America
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BRAZIL:
Brazil [Alagoas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Catarina]
Cultivated
Southern America
-
CARIBBEAN:
Cuba
-
BRAZIL:
Brazil
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | ornamental | | Lewis, G. P. 1998. Caesalpinia. A revision of the Poincianella-Erythrostemon group. 152-158. |
Materials | tannin/dyestuff | source of red 24 | 1961. Webster's third new international dictionary. |
Materials | wood | fide Caesalpinia 158; Cardoso et al. 1998 | Lewis, G. P. 1998. Caesalpinia. A revision of the Poincianella-Erythrostemon group. 152-158. |
Medicines | folklore | | Lewis, G. P. 1998. Caesalpinia. A revision of the Poincianella-Erythrostemon group. 152-158. |