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Taxon:  Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb.) Benth.



Summary
Genus:
Pithecellobium
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Mimosoideae
Tribe:
Ingeae
Nomen number:
28697
Place of publication:
London J. Bot. 3:199. 1844
Verified:
05/01/1993 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
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Inga dulcis (Roxb.) Willd.
Mimosa dulcis Roxb.
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Reference(s)
  1. Aubréville, A. et al., eds. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. 1960-
  2. Barneby, R. C. & J. W. Grimes. 1997. Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: a generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part II. Pithecellobium, Cojoba, and Zygia. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74(2):23.
  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  4. Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. 1982
  5. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980-
  6. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Pithecellobium+dulce&quantity=1
  7. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. 1984- Note: cult.
  8. Howard, R. Flora of the lesser Antilles. 1974-1989 Note: natzd.
  9. IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource). http://www.bioversityinternational.org/databases/new_world_fruits_database/search.html
  10. Isely, D. 1973. Leguminosae of the United States: I. Subfamily Mimosoideae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25(1):113.
  11. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  12. Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
  13. Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. Flora of Peru. 1936-1971; new ser. 1980-
  14. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  15. McVaugh, R. Flora Novo-Galiciana. 1983-
  16. National Academy of Sciences. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production. 1980
  17. National Academy of Sciences. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979
  18. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  19. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  20. Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource). http://www.botanicalbeads.com/
  21. Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. Flora of Thailand. 1970-
  22. Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. Flora of Guatemala. 1946-1976
  23. Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 2:256. http://proseanet.org
  24. Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. Flora of Panama. 1943-1980
  25. Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961
Common names
English
blackbead –
camachile –
guayamochil –
Madrasthorn –
Manila-tamarind –
sweet-inga –
French
pois sucré –
German
Camambilarinde –
Hawaiian
opiuma –
Spanish
guamúchil –
huamúchil –
madre de flecha –
Distribution
Native
Northern America
  • NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Baja California, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas]
  • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Colima, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Puebla, Queretaro, Veracruz, Yucatan]
Southern America
  • MESOAMERICA: Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela (w.)
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia (n. & w.)
Cultivated (also cult.)
Naturalized (natzd. elsewhere in tropics)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Fuels
fuelwood (not best quality fide Firewood Cr) –
Human food
fruit (fide Trop Leg) –
Materials
beads (fide Bot Beads World; as http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_91.html,) –
Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2) –


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