Anacardiaceae
Spondias

Spondias purpurea L.

First published in Sp. Pl., ed. 2.: 613 (1762)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico to N. Colombia. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used as animal food, a poison and a medicine, has environmental uses and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Southwest Caribbean

Introduced into:

Bahamas, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Jawa, Leeward Is., Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Synonyms

Homotypic 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. (2009). Nova silva cusatlantica. Árboles nativos e introduciados de El Salvador. Parte 1: Angiospermae - Familias A a L. Englera 29-1: 1-438.
  • Berhaut, J. (1971). Flore illustrée du Sénégal 1: 1-626. Gouvernement du Sénégal, Ministère du développement rural direction des eaux et forêta, Dakar.
  • Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
  • Cirilo, N. & Proctor, G.R. (1994). Vascular plants of the Caribbean Swan islands of Honduras. Brenesia 41-42: 73-80.
  • 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.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Jones, M. (1991). A checklist of Gambian plants: 1-33. Michael Jones, The Gambia College.
  • 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.
  • Mitchell, J.D. & Daly, D.C. (2015). A revision of Spondias L. (Anacardiaceae) in the Neotropics. PhytoKeys 55: 1-92.
  • Morat, P. (ed.) (1997). Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances 21: 1-121. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Niembro Rocas, A., Vázquez Torres, M. & Sáchez Sáchez, O. (2010). Árboles de Veracruz 100 especies para la reforstación estratégica: 1-253. Gombierno del Estado de Veracruz, México.
  • Pasha, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
  • van Steenis, C.G.G.J. (ed.) (1974-1978). Flora Malesiana 8: 1-577. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta.

Flora of the Cayman Islands

  • L., Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1: 613 (1762).

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

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. (2009). Nova silva cusatlantica. Árboles nativos e introduciados de El Salvador. Parte 1: Angiospermae - Familias A a L. Englera 29-1: 1-438.
  • Berhaut, J. (1971). Flore illustrée du Sénégal 1: 1-626. Gouvernement du Sénégal, Ministère du développement rural direction des eaux et forêta, Dakar.
  • Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
  • Cirilo, N. & Proctor, G.R. (1994). Vascular plants of the Caribbean Swan islands of Honduras. Brenesia 41-42: 73-80.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Jaramillo Díaz, P. & Guézou, A. (2017). CDF Checklist of Galapagos Vascular Plants - FCD Lista de especies de Plantas Vasculares de Galápagos http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/vascular-plants/.
  • Jones, M. (1991). A checklist of Gambian plants: 1-33. Michael Jones, The Gambia College.
  • Mitchell, J.D. & Daly, D.C. (2015). A revision of Spondias L. (Anacardiaceae) in the Neotropics. PhytoKeys 55: 1-92.
  • Niembro Rocas, A., Vázquez Torres, M. & Sáchez Sáchez, O. (2010). Árboles de Veracruz 100 especies para la reforstación estratégica: 1-253. Gombierno del Estado de Veracruz, México.
  • Pasha, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
  • USDA, NRCS ( 2021-continuously updated). Natural Resources Conservation Services Plant Database http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/topics.cgi?earl=checklist.html.
  • van Steenis, C.G.G.J. (ed.) (1974-1978). Flora Malesiana 8: 1-577. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta.

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
  • Burkill HM. (1995). The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vols. 1-3. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vols 1-3.
  • 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.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • García Castro, N. J. (2011). Plantas nativas empleadas en alimentación en Colombia. Instituo de Investigaciones Biológicas Alexander von Humboldt. http://repository.humboldt.org.co/handle/20.500.11761/31275
  • 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
  • Jansen, P., Lemmens, R., Oyen, L., Siemonsma, J., Stavast, F. & Van Valkenburg, J. (1991) Plant Resources of South-East Asia. Basic list of species and commodity grouping. Final version. Pudoc, Wageningen.
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • PROTA (2021). Plants Resources of Tropical Africa. https://prota4u.org/database/
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Aug 1, 1988 Spruce, R. [4093] Peru K000110325 Isotype Yes
Oct 6, 1971 Coulter, T. [876] Mexico K000081586 Yes
Merrill, E.D. [7565] Philippines K003499463 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K003499594 Yes
Spruce, R. [4093] Peru K000110326 Unknown Type Material Yes
Hinton, G.B. [3316] Mexico K000081581 Yes
Jackson, J.A.D. [358] K003499596 Yes
[Jaeger] [184] Haiti K003499715 Yes
Jamaica K:SPC-80204.000 No
s.coll. [10260] Philippines K003499459 Yes
Jacquemont, V. [s.n.] Dominica K003499709 Yes
Lundell, C.L. [467] K003499661 Yes
Ibarra-Manriquez, G.; Esquivel, K. [6539] Mexico K003499655 Yes
Gaumer, G.F. [432] Mexico K000081587 Yes
Yuncker, T.G.; Koepper, J.M.; Wagner, K.A. [8650] Honduras K003499658 Yes
Beetle, A.A. [26262] El Salvador K003499656 Yes
Santo, E. [1903] K003499593 Yes
Sintenis, P. [1017] Puerto Rico K003499707 Yes
Morton, C.V.; Makrinius, E. [2464] Mexico K000081580 Yes
s.coll. [95] Cuba K003499705 Yes
Stevens, W.D.; Krukoff, B.A.; Grijalva, A. [14724] Nicaragua K003499657 Yes
Fernández, M.; Flórez, M.; Torres, G.; Guzmán, A.; Gallego, E.; Bolaños, J.; Cordero, J.; Toro, T.; Rodelo, C. [MFL_3641] Colombia K001890087 Yes
Fernández, M.; Flórez, M.; Torres, G.; Guzmán, A.; Gallego, E.; Bolaños, J.; Cordero, J.; Toro, T.; Rodelo, C. [MFL_3643] Colombia K001890092 Yes
Smith, H.H.; Smith, G.W. [1527] K003499710 Yes
Hinton, G.B. [3217] Mexico K000081582 Yes
Jack, J.G. [5402] Cuba K003499716 Yes
Baker, C.F. [s.n.] Cuba K003499704 Yes
Bourgeau, M. [184] Mexico K000081579 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K003499706 Yes
Merrill [639] Philippines K003499461 Yes
Valeur, E.J. [862] Dominican Republic K003499708 Yes
Donnel Smith, J. [s.n.] Mexico K003499660 Yes
Hinton, G.B.; et al. [10037] Mexico K000081584 Yes
March [337] Jamaica K003499711 Yes
Sinclair [s.n.] K003499659 Yes
Hinton, G.B.; et al. [5676] Mexico K000081583 Yes
Merrill, E.D. [3841] Philippines K003499462 Yes
Jack, J.G. [5293] Cuba K003499712 Yes
Jack, J.G. [5402] Cuba K003499714 Yes
Gbile; Wit; Daramola [ZOG1175] Nigeria K003499597 Yes
Loher, A. [435] Philippines K003499460 Yes
Gentry, H.S. [1435] Mexico K000081585 Yes
Palmer, E. [408] Mexico K000081578 Unknown Type Material Yes
Broadway, W.E. [7156] Jamaica K003499713 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Brazil K003499805 Yes
Deighton, F.C. [3621] Sierra Leone K003499595 Yes
Venezuela K:SPC-66554.000 No

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    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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