- Family:
- Myrtaceae Juss.
Pimenta Lindl.

Native to:
Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.
Introduced into:
Bermuda, Caroline Is., Colombia, Comoros, Cook Is., El Salvador, Florida, Hawaii, Marianas, Society Is., Southwest Caribbean
- Pimenta adenoclada (Urb.) Alain
- Pimenta berciliae T.N.C.Vasconc. & Peguero
- Pimenta cainitoides (Urb.) Burret
- Pimenta dioica (L.) Merr.
- Pimenta ferruginea (Griseb.) Burret
- Pimenta filipes (Urb.) Burret
- Pimenta guatemalensis (Lundell) Lundell
- Pimenta haitiensis (Urb.) Landrum
- Pimenta intermedia (Bisse) Urquiola
- Pimenta jamaicensis (Britton & Harris) Proctor
- Pimenta obscura Proctor
- Pimenta odiolens (Urb.) Burret
- Pimenta oligantha (Urb.) Burret
- Pimenta paganii (Krug & Urb.) Flickinger
- Pimenta podocarpoides (Areces) Landrum
- Pimenta pseudocaryophyllus (Gomes) Landrum
- Pimenta racemosa (Mill.) J.W.Moore
- Pimenta richardii Proctor
- Pimenta samanensis (Alain) Peguero
- Pimenta yumana (Alain) T.N.C.Vasconc.
Pimenta Lindl. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 2005 | Broadway, W.E. [5651], Trinidad & Tobago | K000261959 | No |
First published in Coll. Bot.: t. 19 (1821)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- 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.
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The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0