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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] |
Species[2] | |
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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 the Galápagos islands).[3] Many of the species bear edible fruits, and for this reason several are cultivated commercially.[4] The most popularly cultivated species is the common guava, Psidium guajava.
Taxonomy
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This genus was described first by Linnaeus in 1753.[5][6]
Fossils are known from the Paleogene of Patagonia.[7]
Species
[edit]78 species are accepted.[2]
- Psidium acidum (Mart. ex DC.) Landrum – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and northern Brazil
- Psidium acranthum Urb. – Hispaniola
- Psidium acutangulum DC. – Colombia and Venezuela to Bolivia and west-central Brazil
- Psidium albescens Urb. – Jamaica
- Psidium amplexicaule Pers. – Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Leeward Is., and northeastern Brazil
- Psidium appendiculatum Kiaersk. – northern Venezuela and eastern Brazil
- Psidium araucanum Soares-Silva & Proença – São Paulo, Paraná
- Psidium australe Cambess. – central Colombia to Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina (Misiones)
- Psidium bahianum Landrum & Funch – Bahia
- Psidium brevipedunculatum Tuler & Landrum – Bahia
- Psidium brownianum Mart. ex DC. – northeast Brazil
- Psidium cattleyanum Sabine – eastern and southern Brazil and Uruguay; naturalized and invasive in Hawaii
- Psidium cauliflorum Landrum & Sobral – Bahia
- Psidium cupreum O.Berg – Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro
- Psidium densicomum Mart. ex DC. – Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, northwestern Brazil, Peru, and Colombia
- Psidium donianum O.Berg – Maranhão
- Psidium eugenii Kiaersk. – southeastern Brazil
- Psidium firmum O.Berg – Brazil
- Psidium friedrichsthalianum (O.Berg) Nied. – southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela
- Psidium fulvum McVaugh – Peru
- Psidium ganevii Landrum & Funch – Bahia
- Psidium glaziovianum Kiaersk. – southeastern Brazil
- Psidium grandifolium Mart. ex DC. – Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina
- Psidium grazielae Tuler & M.C.Souza – Espírito Santo
- Psidium guajava L. – Central and South America, West Indies, Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, Arizona;[8] naturalized in parts of Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and on numerous oceanic islands
- Psidium guayaquilense Landrum & Cornejo – Ecuador
- Psidium guineense Sw. – Central and South America, Windward Islands, and Mexico
- Psidium guyanense Pers. – northern Brazil, Venezuela, and French Guiana
- Psidium harrisianum Urb. – Jamaica
- Psidium huanucoense Landrum – Huánuco
- Psidium × hypoglaucum Standl. (P. guajava × P. guineense) – Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras
- Psidium inaequilaterum O.Berg – southeastern Brazil
- Psidium involutisepalum Tuler, Carrijo & Peixoto – Rio de Janeiro
- Psidium itanareense O.Berg – São Paulo
- Psidium jacquinianum (O.Berg) Mattos – unknown; likely South America
- Psidium kennedyanum Morong – Brazil, Paraguay, NE Argentina
- Psidium langsdorffii O.Berg – Minas Gerais
- Psidium laruotteanum Cambess. – Costa Rica to Paraguay
- Psidium longipetiolatum D.Legrand – southern Brazil
- Psidium macahense O.Berg – Espírito Santo to Rio de Janeiro
- Psidium maribense Mart. ex DC. – Colombia, Venezuela, N Brazil
- Psidium minutifolium Krug & Urb. – Cuba
- Psidium misionum D.Legrand – Paraguay and Misiones
- Psidium montanum Sw. – Jamaica
- Psidium myrsinites DC. – Brazil
- Psidium myrtoides O.Berg – Brazil
- Psidium nannophyllum Alain – Dominican Rep
- Psidium nummularia (C.Wright ex Griseb.) C.Wright – Cuba
- Psidium nutans O.Berg – Brazil and northeastern Argentina
- Psidium oblongatum O.Berg – Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo
- Psidium oblongifolium O.Berg – southeastern Brazil
- Psidium occidentale Landrum & Parra-Os. – southwestern Colombia and Ecuador
- Psidium oligospermum Mart. ex DC. (synonyms Psidium sartorianum and Psidium sintenisii) – Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, to tropical South America
- Psidium oncocalyx Burret – Bahia
- Psidium ovale (Spreng.) Burret – Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina
- Psidium parvifolium Griseb. – Cuba
- Psidium pedicellatum McVaugh – Colombia, Ecuador
- Psidium pigmeum Arruda – southeastern Brazil
- Psidium pulcherrimum Tuler & C.M.Costa – Bahia
- Psidium raimondii Burret – Peru
- Psidium ramboanum Mattos – Mato Grosso
- Psidium ratterianum Proença & Soares-Silva – Brasília
- Psidium refractum O.Berg – Goiás
- Psidium rhombeum O.Berg – Bahia
- Psidium riparium Mart. ex DC. – Brazil
- Psidium robustum O.Berg – Maranhão, Minas Gerais, São Paulo
- Psidium rostratum McVaugh – Peru
- Psidium rotundatum Griseb. – Cuba
- Psidium rotundidiscum Proença & Tuler – Bahia
- Psidium rufum Mart. ex DC. – Brazil
- Psidium rutidocarpum Ruiz & Pav. ex G.Don – Peru
- Psidium salutare (Kunth) O.Berg – Central and South America, West Indies, southern Mexico
- Psidium schenckianum Kiaersk. – eastern Brazil
- Psidium sessiliflorum (Landrum) Proença & Tuler – western Bahia
- Psidium sorocabense O.Berg – southeastern Brazil
- Psidium striatulum DC. – Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
- Psidium suffruticosum O.Berg – eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, central, southeastern, and southern Brazil
- Psidium urquiolanum Landrum & Z.Acosta – eastern Cuba
References
[edit]- ^ "Genus: Psidium L." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2009-01-27. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
- ^ a b c Psidium L. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
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- 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
- ^ Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull, ed. (2008). The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts (illustrated ed.). CABI. ISBN 9780851996387.
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 470 in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Psidium L.
- ^ Panti, Carolina (2016-05-18). "Myrtaceae fossil leaves from the Río Turbio Formation (Middle Eocene), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina". Historical Biology. 28 (4): 459–469. Bibcode:2016HBio...28..459P. doi:10.1080/08912963.2014.976635. hdl:11336/19131. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 84988707.
- ^ Biota of North America 2013 county distribution map, Psidium guajava