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Taxon:
Swietenia mahagoni
(L.) Jacq.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Swietenia
Family:
Meliaceae
Nomen number:
35956
Place of publication:
Enum. syst. pl. 20. 1760 (Select. stirp. amer. hist. 127. 1763)
Verified:
02/17/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Cedrela mahagoni
L.
No images
Conservation Status
CITES.
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.cites.org/eng/app/appendices.shtml
Reference(s)
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
www.skud.info
Boutelje, J. B.
1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature
CITES.
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.cites.org/eng/app/appendices.shtml
Erhardt, W. et al.
2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
Fouché, J.-G.
1999. pers. comm.
Note:
re. French common names
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Howard, R. A.
1973. The
Enumeratio
and
Selectarum
of Nicolaus von Jacquin. J. Arnold Arbor. 54:435-470.
Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann.
1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants
Little, E. L., Jr.
1978. Important forest trees of the United States
Luna, R. K.
1996. Plantation trees.
Note:
International Book Distributors
Pennington, T. D.
1981. Meliaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 28:401-405.
URL:
http://www.nybg.org/botany/ofn/
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds.
1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 5(1):447.
URL:
http://proseanet.org
Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed.
1948-. Flora malesiana.
Uphof, J. C. T.
1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
Cuban mahogany –
Reference(s)
Spanish mahogany –
Reference(s)
West Indian mahogany –
Reference(s)
French
acajou d'Amérique –
Reference(s)
mahogany d'Amérique –
Reference(s)
Portuguese (Brazil)
mogno –
Reference(s)
mogno-de-folhas-pequenas –
Reference(s)
mogno-do-Caribe –
Reference(s)
mogno-verdadeiro –
Reference(s)
Swedish
kubamahogny –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Florida
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Bahamas
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Cuba
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Dominican Republic
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Haiti
1
Native
Southern America
Caribbean
Jamaica
4
Naturalized
Southern America
Caribbean
West Indies
Native
Northern America
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States
[Florida]
Southern America
CARIBBEAN:
Bahamas
,
Cuba
,
Dominican Republic
,
Haiti
,
Jamaica
Naturalized
Southern America
CARIBBEAN:
West Indies
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Materials
wood
fide F Males 12:18. 1995, original source of mahogany
Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed.
1948-. Flora malesiana.
Vertebrate poisons
mammals
Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann.
1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants
Name
References