Apocynaceae
Aspidosperma

Aspidosperma marcgravianum Woodson

First published in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 38: 170 (1951)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical America. It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Bolivia, Brazil North, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Molino, J.-F., Sabatier, D., Grenand, P., Engel, J., Frame, D., Delprete, P.G., Fleury, M., Odonne, G., Davy, D., Lucas, E.J. & Martin, C.A. (2022). An annotated checklist of the tree species of French Guiana, including vernacular nomenclature. Adansonia, sér. 3, 44: 345-903.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Davidse, G. & al. (eds.) (2009). Flora Mesoamericana 4(1): 1-855. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F. [Cited as Aspidosperma excelsum.]
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela. [Cited as Aspidosperma excelsum.]
  • Morales, J.F. (2005). Estudios en las Apocynaceae Neotropicales XIX: La familia Apocynaceae s.str. (Apocynoideae, Rauvolfioideae) de Costa Rica. Darwiniana 43: 90-191. [Cited as Aspidosperma excelsum.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Molino, J.-F., Sabatier, D., Grenand, P., Engel, J., Frame, D., Delprete, P.G., Fleury, M., Odonne, G., Davy, D., Lucas, E.J. & Martin, C.A. (2022). An annotated checklist of the tree species of French Guiana, including vernacular nomenclature. Adansonia, sér. 3, 44: 345-903.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2008 Sasaki, D.; Silveira, E.A.; Camargo, A.C.; Piva, J.H. [1984] Brazil K000447923 No
Jan 1, 2008 Sasaki, D.; Silveira, E.A.; Camargo, A.C.; Piva, J.H. [1981] Brazil K000447888 No
Jan 1, 2008 Sasaki, D.; Silveira, E.A.; Camargo, A.C.; Piva, J.H. [1979] Brazil K000447887 Yes
Jan 1, 2008 Projeto Flora Cristalino [537] Brazil K000578965 No
Jan 1, 2008 Sasaki, D.; Silveira, E.A.; Camargo, A.C.; Piva, J.H. [1989] Brazil K000447886 No
Sep 1, 1997 Vicentini, A.; Nicolau, S.A.; Silva, C.F.; Pereira, E.C. [827] Brazil K000988454 Yes
Jan 1, 1991 Pesha, V. B. [42] Peru K000047785 Yes
Jan 1, 1988 Daly, D.C.; Maas, P.J.M.; Sá, C.F.C., de; Lima, R.P., de [5488] Brazil K000988457 Yes
Jan 1, 1985 Prance, G.T.; Silva, A.S.; Berg, C.C.; Henderson, A.J.; Nelson, B.W.; Balick, M.J.; Bahia, R.P.; Santos, M.R., dos [24968] Brazil K000988453 Yes
Krukoff, B.A. [7207] Brazil K000988456 Yes
Sasaki, D.; Frisby, S.; Reis, T.C.Y.; Antunes, R.L.; Piva, J. [2320] Brazil K000578969 Yes
Krukoff, B.A. [7207] Brazil K000988455 Yes

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images