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Chrysophyllum mexicanum

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Internal ID UUID64402f11678af076517304
Scientific name Chrysophyllum mexicanum
Authority Brandegee ex Standl.
First published in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 23: 1114. 1924

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Chrysophyllum mexicanum is a shrub or tree native to Mexico and Central America, growing up to 23 metres (80 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of up to 50 cm (20 in). It is found in forests, particularly on rocky hillsides, at altitudes up to 1,700 m (5,600 ft).

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Micropholis sericea L.O.Williams Brittonia 18: 267 (1966)
Chrysophyllum mexicanum var. politum Cronquist Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 72: 203 (1945)
Cynodendron mexicanum (Brandegee ex Standl.) Baehni Boissiera 11: 143 (1965)
Chrysophyllum mexicanum var. typicum Cronquist Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 72: 202 (1945)

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English caimitillo

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
  • Southern America
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000856377
USDA Plants CHME10
Tropicos 28700191
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:786468-1
The Plant List kew-40180
Open Tree Of Life 80949
NCBI Taxonomy 1175919
IUCN Red List 150101952
IPNI 786468-1
iNaturalist 209904
GBIF 2885577
EOL 1148124
USDA GRIN 415285
Wikipedia Chrysophyllum_mexicanum

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Scientific Literature Top

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Plant Extracts from the Yucatan Peninsula in the In Vitro Control of Curvularia lunata and Antifungal Effect of Mosannona depressa and Piper neesianum Extracts on Postharvest Fruits of Habanero Pepper Cruz-Cerino P, Cristóbal-Alejo J, Ruiz-Carrera V, Gamboa-Angulo M Plants (Basel) 09-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10459550
doi:10.3390/plants12162908
PMID:37631120
Nematicidal Screening of Aqueous Extracts from Plants of the Yucatan Peninsula and Ecotoxicity Aviles-Gomez J, Cristóbal-Alejo J, Andrés MF, González-Coloma A, Carnevali G, Pérez-Brito D, Moo-Koh FA, Gamboa-Angulo M Plants (Basel) 17-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9416186
doi:10.3390/plants11162138
PMID:36015441
El Niño-Southern Oscillation affects the water relations of tree species in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico Palomo-Kumul J, Valdez-Hernández M, Islebe GA, Cach-Pérez MJ, Andrade JL Sci Rep 17-May-2021
PMCID:PMC8129073
doi:10.1038/s41598-021-89835-8
PMID:34001943
Extracts from Six Native Plants of the Yucatán Peninsula Hinder Mycelial Growth of Fusarium equiseti and F. oxysporum, Pathogens of Capsicum chinense Cruz-Cerino P, Cristóbal-Alejo J, Ruiz-Carrera V, Carnevali G, Vera-Ku M, Martín J, Reyes F, Gamboa-Angulo M Pathogens 10-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC7601340
doi:10.3390/pathogens9100827
PMID:33050398
The Mayan Tropical Rainforest: An Uncharted Reservoir of Tritrophic Host-Fruit Fly-Parasitoid Interactions López-Ortega M, Díaz-Fleischer F, Piñero JC, Valdez-Lazalde JR, Hernández-Ortiz M, Hernández-Ortiz V Insects 03-Aug-2020
PMCID:PMC7469189
doi:10.3390/insects11080495
PMID:32756345
Home gardens’ agrobiodiversity and owners’ knowledge of their ecological, economic and socio-cultural multifunctionality: a case study in the lowlands of Tabasco, México Avilez-López T, van der Wal H, Aldasoro-Maya EM, Rodríguez-Robles U J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 20-Jul-2020
PMCID:PMC7370461
doi:10.1186/s13002-020-00392-2
PMID:32690045
Domestication of the neotropical tree Chrysophyllum cainito from a geographically limited yet genetically diverse gene pool in Panama Petersen JJ, Parker IM, Potter D Ecol Evol 28-Jan-2014
PMCID:PMC4098135
doi:10.1002/ece3.948
PMID:25035796

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