Meliaceae
Trichilia

Trichilia hirta L.

First published in Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1020 (1759)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico to Tropical America. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as animal food, a poison and a medicine and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Balick, M. J., M. H. Nee & D.E. Atha (2000). Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 85: 1-246.
  • Berendsohn, W.G., Gruber, A.K. & Monterrosa Salomón, J. (2012). Nova Silva Cusatlantica. Árboles natinos e introducidos de El Salvador. Parte 2: Angiospermae - Familias M a P y Pteridophyta. Englera 29-2: 1-300.
  • Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Gonzalez, F., Nelson Diaz, J. & Lowry, P. (1995). Flora Illustrada de San Andrés y Providencia: 1-281. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Colombia.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • López Patiño, E.J., Szeszko, D.R., Rascala Pérez, J. & Beltrán Retis, A.S. (2012). The flora of the Tenacingo-Malinalco-Zumpahuacán protected natural area, state of Mexico, Mexico. Harvard Papers in Botany 17: 65-167.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Pennington, T.D. & Clarkson, J.J. (eds.) (2016). A revision of american Trichilia (Meliaceae). Phytotaxa 259: 1-162.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Bernal, R., Galeano, G., Rodríguez, A., Sarmiento, H. & Gutiérrez, M. (2017). Nombres comunes de las plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Castro, C. (Proveedor de metadatos), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). Versión 11.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Kew’s Economic Botany collection in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Berendsohn, W.G., Gruber, A.K. & Monterrosa Salomón, J. (2012). Nova Silva Cusatlantica. Árboles natinos e introducidos de El Salvador. Parte 2: Angiospermae - Familias M a P y Pteridophyta. Englera 29-2: 1-300.
  • Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. & Souza, V.C. (2016-continuously updated). Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ResultadoDaConsultaNovaConsulta.do.
  • Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Gonzalez, F., Nelson Diaz, J. & Lowry, P. (1995). Flora Illustrada de San Andrés y Providencia: 1-281. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Colombia.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • López Patiño, E.J., Szeszko, D.R., Rascala Pérez, J. & Beltrán Retis, A.S. (2012). The flora of the Tenacingo-Malinalco-Zumpahuacán protected natural area, state of Mexico, Mexico. Harvard Papers in Botany 17: 65-167.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Pennington, T.D. & Clarkson, J.J. (eds.) (2016). A revision of american Trichilia (Meliaceae). Phytotaxa 259: 1-162.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Castañeda, R.R. (1991). Frutas silvestres de Colombia. Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispánica.
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
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  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • IUCN (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2015). Listado de especies de Productos No Maderables del caribe colombiano. 366 registros, aportados por: Garcia, H. (Contacto del Recurso), López Camacho, R. (Creador del recurso), Espitia Palencia, L. (Proveedor del metadatos). Versión 2.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_bst-caribe_plantae_2015
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jul 1, 2013 Aona, L.Y.S.; Fonseca, W.O.; Lucas, E.; Simões, S.S.; Zappi, D.C.; Almeida, J.S. [1659] Brazil K000170190 Yes
Jul 8, 2009 Harley, R.M., et al. [55434] Brazil K000542884 No
Jul 8, 2009 Harley, R.M., et al. [55435] Brazil K000542885 No
Jun 24, 2009 Klitgaard, B.B., et al. [330] Ecuador K000542859 No
Jun 24, 2009 Mendoza, M. [1294] Bolivia K000542862 No
Mar 30, 2009 Wood, J.R.I.; Mamani, F. [14094] Bolivia K000074488 No
Mar 30, 2009 Wood, J.R.I.; Mamani, F. [14094] Bolivia K000074489 No
Marcano-Berti, L.; Salcedo, P.; Pena, I. Venezuela K004848955 Yes
Bunting, G.S. Venezuela K004848961 Yes
Zarucchi, J.L.; Cuadros, H. [3972] Colombia K001343448 Yes
Smith H.H. [822] Colombia K001343446 Yes
[Sbaner] [s.n.] Guatemala K005132683 Yes
Zúniga, R. [529] Costa Rica K005132673 Yes
Pennington, T. [10037] Mexico K:SPC-43593.000 No
Triana, J. [s.n.] Colombia K001343359 Yes
Bunting, G.S.; Aristeguieta, L. Venezuela K004848950 Yes
Mexico K:SPC-43582.000 No
Callejas, R.; Betancur, J.; Fonnegra, R.; Daly, D.; Marulanda, O. [4945] Colombia K001343443 Yes
Pringle, C.G. [6394] Mexico K000380678 Type Yes
Galan, P.; Rodriguez, D.; Villacorta, A. [4517] El Salvador K001532127 No
Castillo, J.J. [JC1316] Guatemala K005132681 Yes
André, E.F. [1861] Colombia K001343449 Yes
Dwyer, J.D. [14946] Belize K005132668 Yes
Wingfield, R. Venezuela K004848939 Yes
Mamani, F.; Saucedo, M. [623a] Bolivia K004848974 Yes
Ortiz, F. [570] Nicaragua K005132685 Yes
Parada, G.A. [939] Bolivia K004848963 Yes
Ruiz-Teran, L.; Marcano-Berti, L. Venezuela K004848958 Yes
Brazil K:SPC-43610.000 No
Fernández-Lucero, M.; Guzmán, I.; Bermudez, C.; Gómez, E.; Poulle, M.; Castro, J. [MFL_3253] Colombia K001890081 Yes
Bruins-Lich, H. Venezuela K004848944 Yes
Heyde; Lux [s.n.] Guatemala K005132684 Yes
Smith H.H. [824] Colombia K001343447 Yes
Mostacedo, B.; Abbott, R. [2768] Bolivia K004848965 Yes
Nelson, C. [9498] Honduras K005132665 Yes
Soto, C. [95] Honduras K005132667 Yes
Vargas C, I.G.G.; [Antoni Jardim] [3030] Bolivia K004848967 Yes
Zenteno-R, F.; Moya, L.; Apo, P.; Caimani, M.; Cunay, G.; Blanco, J. [10209] Bolivia K004848962 Yes
Hayes, S. [673] Panama K004848935 Yes
Agostini, G.; T. de Agostini Venezuela K004848951 Yes
Villeda, M. [196] Honduras K005132664 Yes
Edwards, J.B. [343] Honduras K005132662 Yes
Davidse, G.; Mario Sousa, S.; Linares, J.L. [35531] Honduras K005132666 Yes
Marcano-Berti, L.; Bautista, J.; Quintebo, A. Venezuela K004848954 Yes
Marcano-Berti, L.; Bautista-Carrillo Venezuela K004848960 Yes
St. G. Beck [8236] Bolivia K004848972 Yes
Saldías P, M. [612] Bolivia K004848968 Yes
Fendler, A. Venezuela K004848940 Yes
[Moritz] Venezuela K004848942 Yes
Glaziou, A.F.M. [6103] Brazil K000380722 Unknown Type Material Yes
Elvir, A. [23] Honduras K005132670 Yes
Glaziou, A.F.M. [13644] Brazil K000380721 Type Yes
Arvigo, R. [43] Belize K005132661 Yes
Ortiz, F. [1856] Nicaragua K005132690 Yes
Fendler, A. Venezuela K004848941 Yes
Spruce, R. [6313] Ecuador K000201288 Yes
Fernandez, A. [312] Costa Rica K005132677 Yes
Glaziou, A.F.M. [11835] Brazil K000380719 Unknown Type Material Yes
Chavarría, U. [670] Costa Rica K005132678 Yes
Meier, W.; Nehlin, S. Venezuela K004848947 Yes
Krapovickas, A.; Schinini, A. [36357] Bolivia K004848976 Yes
Gentle, P.H. [248] Belize K005132663 Yes
Quevedo S, R. [317] Bolivia K004848970 Yes
Marcano-Berti, L.; Pena, I.S. Venezuela K004848959 Yes
Balick, M.J.; Xix, E.; Xix, M.; Green, T. [1831] Belize K005132672 Yes
Jardim, A.; F. Mamani [3610] Bolivia K004848966 Yes
F. Mamani [429] Bolivia K004848973 Yes
Zúniga, R. [529] Costa Rica K005132680 Yes
André, E.F. [139] Colombia K001343357 Yes
Balick, M.J.; Cocom, P.; Cocom, R.; Shropshire, G. [3127] Belize K005132669 Yes
Galán, P.; Martínez, V.M. [3949] El Salvador K005132659 Yes
Bunting, G.S. Venezuela K004848948 Yes
André, E.F. [913] Colombia K001343444 Yes
Krapovickas, A.; Schinini, A. [36588] Bolivia K004848971 Yes
Bunting, G.S.; Aristeguieta, L. Venezuela K004848945 Yes
Bunting, G.S. Venezuela K004848949 Yes
Ruiz-Terán, L.E. Venezuela K004848956 Yes
Meier, W.; Bohn, C.; Borjas, P. Venezuela K004848952 Yes
Bunting, G.S. Venezuela K004848953 Yes
Spruce, R. [6313bis] Ecuador K000201287 Yes
Ruiz-Terán, L.E. Venezuela K004848957 Yes
Mexico K:SPC-43625.000 No
Bunting, G.S.; Stoddart, A. Venezuela K004848936 Yes
[Moritz] Venezuela K004848943 Yes
Mexico K:SPC-43604.000 No
Mamani, F.; Saucedo, M. [623a] Bolivia K004848975 Yes
Glaziou, A.F.M. [11834] Brazil K000380720 Unknown Type Material Yes
Bunting, G.S.; Fucci, M. Venezuela K004848938 Yes
Miller, O.O.; Johnston, J.R. Venezuela K004848937 Yes
Stevens, W.D.; Krukoff, B.A. [11955] Nicaragua K005132687 Yes
Tucker, J.M. [956] El Salvador K005132660 Yes
Bernardi Venezuela K004848946 Yes
Rodriguez, D.; Guerrero, R.; Ibañez, M. [3478] El Salvador K005132658 Yes
Andrew, R. [12] Belize K005132671 Yes
Seidel, R. [2739] Bolivia K004848964 Yes
Sandino, J.C. [4979] Nicaragua K005132689 Yes
Grijalva, A.; Almanza, N. [3580] Nicaragua K005132686 Yes
Chavarría, U. [746] Costa Rica K005132679 Yes
Smith H.H. [s.n.] Colombia K001343445 Yes
Wallnöfer, B.; Frisch, R.O.; Tut-Tesucun, F.M. [9676] Guatemala K005132682 Yes
St. G. Beck [24259] Bolivia K004848969 Yes
Chavarría, U. [423] Costa Rica K005132676 Yes
Sanders, A.C.; Baker, M.; et al [17813] Costa Rica K005132675 Yes
Zúniga, R. [529] Costa Rica K005132674 Yes
Araquistain, M.; Moreno, P.P. [2059] Nicaragua K005132688 Yes

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