Psidium
Psidium | |
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Guava (Psidium guajava) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Myrtales |
Family: | Myrtaceae |
Subfamily: | Myrtoideae |
Tribe: | Myrteae |
Genus: | Psidium L.[1] |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Psidium is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere (Mexico, Central and South America, the West Indies, Galápagos, and the southern United States).[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][excessive citations]
Taxonomy[]
This genus was described first by Linnaeus in 1753.[10][11] Many of the species bear edible fruits, and for this reason several are cultivated commercially.[12] The most popularly cultivated species is the common guava, Psidium guajava.
- Species[3]
- Psidium acidum - Peru, Ecuador
- - Dominican Rep
- - Cuba
- Psidium acutangulum - from Colombia to Amapá and Bolivia
- - Jamaica
- Psidium amplexicaule - Puerto Rico, Leeward Is.
- - Bahia
- - N Venezuela, NE Brazil
- - São Paulo, Paraná
- - Rio de Janeiro
- - Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
- - Bahia
- - Cuba
- - Dominican Rep
- - Venezuela, NE Brazil
- - Puerto Rico
- - Brazil
- Psidium cattleianum - Brazil, Uruguay; naturalized and invasive in Hawaii
- - Bahia
- - Cuba
- Psidium claraense - Cuba
- - Cuba
- - Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, NW Brazil, Peru, Colombia
- - Hispaniola
- - Maranhão
- †Psidium dumetorum - Jamaica but extinct
- - SE Brazil
- - Brazil
- Psidium friedrichsthalianum - S Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela
- - Peru
- Psidium galapageium - Galápagos
- - Bahia
- - Minas Gerais, São Paulo
- - SE Brazil
- - Uruguay
- - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, NE Argentina
- Psidium guajava - Central + South America, West Indies, Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, Arizona;[13] naturalized in parts of Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and on numerous oceanic islands
- Psidium guineense - Central + South America, Windward Is, Mexico
- - N Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana
- - Haiti
- Psidium harrisianum - Jamaica
- - Paraguay, Central America
- - Massif de la Hotte
- Psidium huanucoense - Huánuco
- - SE Brazil
- - São Paulo
- - unknown
- - Cuba
- - Brazil, Paraguay, NE Argentina
- - Minas Gerais
- - from Costa Rica to Paraguay
- Psidium longipetiolatum - S Brazil
- - Brazil
- - Cuba
- - Colombia, Venezuela, N Brazil
- - Cuba
- - Paraguay, Misiones
- - Jamaica
- - Cuba
- - Brazil
- Psidium myrtoides - Brazil
- - Dominican Rep
- - Cuba
- - Cuba
- - Brazil, NE Argentina
- - Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo
- - SE Brazil
- - Minas Gerais, Paraíba
- - Bahia
- - Cuba
- - Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina
- - Cuba
- Psidium pedicellatum - Colombia, Ecuador
- - SE Brazil
- Psidium raimondii - Peru
- - Mato Grosso
- - Brasília
- - Goiás
- - Paraná
- - Sierra Sagua Baracoa in Cuba
- - Bahia
- - Brazil
- - Maranhão, Minas Gerais, São Paulo
- Psidium rostratum - Peru
- - Cuba
- Psidium rufum - Brazil
- - Peru
- - Central + South America, West Indies, S Mexico
- Psidium sartorianum - Central + South America, West Indies, Mexico
- - E Brazil
- - Cuba
- - Dominican Rep
- Psidium sintenisii - Puerto Rico
- - SE Brazil
- -Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
- - Cuba
- - Massif du Nord in Haiti
References[]
- ^ "Genus: Psidium L." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2009-01-27. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
- ^ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2009. Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): i–xvi, 1–855. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.
- ^ Landrum, L. R. & M. L. Kawasaki. 1997. The genera of Myrtaceae in Brazil: an illustrated synoptic treatment and identification keys. Brittonia 49(4): 508–536.
- ^ Sánchez-Vindas, P. E. 1989. Flora de Nicaragua: Myrtaceae. Brenesia 31: 53–73.
- ^ Sánchez-Vindas, P. E. 2001. Calycolpus, Eugenia, Myrcia, Myrcianthes, Myrciaria, Pimenta, Plinia, Psidium, Syzygium, Ugni. En: Stevens, W.D., C. Ulloa, A. Pool & O.M. Montiel (eds.), Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85(2): 1566, 1570–1574, 1575–1580.
- ^ Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps, genus Psidium
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 470 in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Psidium L.
- ^ Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull, ed. (2008). The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts (illustrated ed.). CABI. ISBN 9780851996387.
- ^ Biota of North America 2013 county distribution map, Psidium guajava
External links[]
Categories:
- Psidium
- Myrtaceae genera
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus