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Taxon:  Swietenia macrophylla King



Summary
Genus:
Swietenia
Family:
Meliaceae
Nomen number:
35955
Place of publication:
Hooker's Icon. Pl. 16: t. 1550. 1886
Verified:
10/28/1987 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Swietenia candollei Pittier
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Conservation Status
  • CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009
  2. Boutelje, J. B. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. 1980
  3. CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
  4. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980-
  5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  6. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm.
  7. Gullison, R. E. et al. 2000. 'Marketing' species conservation. Nature 404:923-924.
  8. Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
  9. Lamb, D. & P. Lawrence. 1993. Mixed species plantation using high value rainforest trees in Australia. Restoration of tropical forest ecosystems. 1993 102.
  10. Luna, R. K. Plantation trees. 1996
  11. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
  12. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
  13. Mors, W. T. & C. T. Rizzini. 1966. Useful plants of Brazil. 1966 127.
  14. Mors, W. T. & C. T. Rizzini. Useful plants of Brazil. 1966
  15. Pennington, T. D. 1981. Meliaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 28:395.
  16. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  17. Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
  18. Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds. 1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 5(1):447.
  19. Weber, E. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. 2003
  20. Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. World economic plants: a standard reference (on-line edition) [medicinal plants only].
  21. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Common names
English
Honduran mahogany –
mahogany –
Portuguese (Brazil)
aguano –
araputanga –
caóba –
cedro-í –
mogno –
mogno-brasileiro –
Spanish
caoba –
Spanish (Bolivia)
mara –
Spanish (Peru)
aguano –
Swedish
hondurasmahogny –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoCampeche 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoChiapas 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoQuintana Roo 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoTabasco 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoVeracruz 
1NativeSouthern AmericaBrazilBrazilAcre 
1NativeSouthern AmericaBrazilBrazilPara 
1NativeSouthern AmericaMesoamericaBelize  
1NativeSouthern AmericaMesoamericaCosta RicaGuanacaste 
1NativeSouthern AmericaMesoamericaGuatemalaChimaltenango 
1NativeSouthern AmericaMesoamericaGuatemalaIzabal 
1NativeSouthern AmericaMesoamericaGuatemalaPeten 
1NativeSouthern AmericaMesoamericaHondurasColon 
1NativeSouthern AmericaMesoamericaHondurasOlancho 
1NativeSouthern AmericaMesoamericaNicaraguaZelaya 
1NativeSouthern AmericaMesoamericaPanamaDarien 
1NativeSouthern AmericaMesoamericaPanamaPanama 
1NativeSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaFrench Guiana  
1NativeSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuelaAragua 
1NativeSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuelaBarinas 
1NativeSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuelaZulia 
1NativeSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaBoliviaLa Paz 
1NativeSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaBoliviaSanta Cruz 
1NativeSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaColombiaBolivar 
1NativeSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaPeruHuanuco 
1NativeSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaPeruLoreto 
1NativeSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaPeruSan Martin 
2Cultivated     
4NaturalizedAsia-TropicalMalesiaSingapore  
4NaturalizedPacificNorth-Central PacificUnited StatesHawaii 
Native
Northern America
  • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz]
Southern America
  • BRAZIL: Brazil [Acre, Para]
  • MESOAMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica [Guanacaste], Guatemala [Peten, Chimaltenango, Izabal], Honduras [Colon, Olancho], Nicaragua [Zelaya], Panama [Darien, Panama]
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Venezuela [Zulia, Aragua, Barinas]
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia [La Paz, Santa Cruz], Colombia [Bolivar], Peru [Huanuco, Loreto, San Martin]
Cultivated ()
Naturalized
Asia-Tropical
  • MALESIA: Singapore
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalrevegetator Lamb, D. & P. Lawrence. 1993. Mixed species plantation using high value rainforest trees in Australia. Restoration of tropical forest ecosystems. 1993 102.
Materialsbeads Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
Materialswood Pennington, T. D. 1981. Meliaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 28:395.
Medicinesfolklore McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Weed  Weber, E. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. 2003
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=35955. Accessed 3 April 2026.


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