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Psidium

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Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, gland-dotted. Inflorescence 1-3-flowered, axillary. Calyx unlobed before anthesis, enclosing the flower bud, later splitting into 4-5 lobes. Petals 4-5. Stamens numerous, free. Ovary 4-5-locular. Fruit a berry; seeds numerous.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Psidium Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1011
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Psidium

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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]

Taxonomy

new leaves of Psidium in West Bengal, India.

This genus was described first by Linnaeus in 1753.[4][5] Many of the species bear edible fruits, and for this reason several are cultivated commercially.[6] The most popularly cultivated species is the common guava, Psidium guajava.

Fossils are known from the Paleogene of Patagonia.[7]

Species[8]
  1. Psidium acidum - Peru, Ecuador
  2. Psidium acranthum - Dominican Rep
  3. Psidium acunae - Cuba
  4. Psidium acutangulum - from Colombia to Amapá and Bolivia
  5. Psidium albescens - Jamaica
  6. Psidium amplexicaule - Puerto Rico, Leeward Is.
  7. Psidium apiculatum - Bahia
  8. Psidium appendiculatum - N Venezuela, NE Brazil
  9. Psidium araucanum - São Paulo, Paraná
  10. Psidium arboreum - Rio de Janeiro
  11. Psidium australe - Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
  12. Psidium bahianum - Bahia
  13. Psidium balium - Cuba
  14. Psidium brevifolium - Dominican Rep
  15. Psidium brownianum - Venezuela, NE Brazil
  16. Psidium calyptranthoides - Puerto Rico
  17. Psidium canum - Brazil
  18. Psidium cattleianum - Brazil, Uruguay; naturalized and invasive in Hawaii
  19. Psidium cauliflorum - Bahia
  20. Psidium celastroides - Cuba
  21. Psidium claraense - Cuba
  22. Psidium cymosum - Cuba
  23. Psidium densicomum - Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, NW Brazil, Peru, Colombia
  24. Psidium dictyophyllum - Hispaniola
  25. Psidium donianum - Maranhão
  26. †Psidium dumetorum - Jamaica but extinct
  27. Psidium eugenii - SE Brazil
  28. Psidium firmum - Brazil
  29. Psidium friedrichsthalianum - S Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela
  30. Psidium fulvum - Peru
  31. Psidium galapageium - Galápagos
  32. Psidium ganevii - Bahia
  33. Psidium giganteum - Minas Gerais, São Paulo
  34. Psidium glaziovianum - SE Brazil
  35. Psidium globosum - Uruguay
  36. Psidium grandifolium - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, NE Argentina
  37. Psidium guajava - Central + South America, West Indies, Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, Arizona;[9] naturalized in parts of Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and on numerous oceanic islands
  38. Psidium guineense - Central + South America, Windward Is, Mexico
  39. Psidium guyanense - N Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana
  40. Psidium haitiense - Haiti
  41. Psidium harrisianum - Jamaica
  42. Psidium × hasslerianum - Paraguay, Central America
  43. Psidium hotteanum - Massif de la Hotte
  44. Psidium huanucoense - Huánuco
  45. Psidium inaequilaterum - SE Brazil
  46. Psidium itanareense - São Paulo
  47. Psidium jacquinianum - unknown
  48. Psidium jakucsianum - Cuba
  49. Psidium kennedyanum - Brazil, Paraguay, NE Argentina
  50. Psidium langsdorffii - Minas Gerais
  51. Psidium laruotteanum - from Costa Rica to Paraguay
  52. Psidium longipetiolatum - S Brazil
  53. Psidium lourteigiae - Brazil
  54. Psidium loustalotii - Cuba
  55. Psidium maribense - Colombia, Venezuela, N Brazil
  56. Psidium minutifolium - Cuba
  57. Psidium misionum - Paraguay, Misiones
  58. Psidium montanum - Jamaica
  59. Psidium munizianum - Cuba
  60. Psidium myrsinites - Brazil
  61. Psidium myrtoides - Brazil
  62. Psidium nannophyllum - Dominican Rep
  63. Psidium navasense - Cuba
  64. Psidium nummularia - Cuba
  65. Psidium nutans - Brazil, NE Argentina
  66. Psidium oblongatum - Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo
  67. Psidium oblongifolium - SE Brazil
  68. Psidium oligospermum - Minas Gerais, Paraíba
  69. Psidium oncocalyx - Bahia
  70. Psidium orbifolium - Cuba
  71. Psidium ovale - Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina
  72. Psidium parvifolium - Cuba
  73. Psidium pedicellatum - Colombia, Ecuador
  74. Psidium pigmeum - SE Brazil
  75. Psidium raimondii - Peru
  76. Psidium ramboanum - Mato Grosso
  77. Psidium ratterianum - Brasília
  78. Psidium refractum - Goiás
  79. Psidium reptans - Paraná
  80. Psidium reversum - Sierra Sagua Baracoa in Cuba
  81. Psidium rhombeum - Bahia
  82. Psidium riparium - Brazil
  83. Psidium robustum - Maranhão, Minas Gerais, São Paulo
  84. Psidium rostratum - Peru
  85. Psidium rotundatum - Cuba
  86. Psidium rufum - Brazil
  87. Psidium rutidocarpum - Peru
  88. Psidium salutare - Central + South America, West Indies, S Mexico
  89. Psidium sartorianum - Central + South America, West Indies, Mexico
  90. Psidium schenckianum - E Brazil
  91. Psidium scopulorum - Cuba
  92. Psidium sessilifolium - Dominican Rep
  93. Psidium sintenisii - Puerto Rico
  94. Psidium sorocabense - SE Brazil
  95. Psidium striatulum -Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
  96. Psidium tenuirame - Cuba
  97. Psidium trilobum - Massif du Nord in Haiti

References

  1. ^ "Genus: Psidium L." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2009-01-27. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
  2. ^ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
  3. ^
    • 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
  4. ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 470 in Latin
  5. ^ Tropicos, Psidium L.
  6. ^ Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull, ed. (2008). The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts (illustrated ed.). CABI. ISBN 9780851996387.
  7. ^ 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. doi:10.1080/08912963.2014.976635. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 84988707.
  8. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  9. ^ Biota of North America 2013 county distribution map, Psidium guajava

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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).

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