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Latin name	Acoelorraphe H.Wendl.
Family	Palmae
Distribution
North America distribution zone
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Synonym	Acoelorraphe Hook.f. Acoelorrphaphe H.Wendl. Paurotis (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) Britton Paurotis O.F.Cook
English name	paurotis; Everglades palm, paurotis-palm, silver-saw-palmeto, sylver-saw palm
French name	paurotis
Spanish name	guano prieto (Cuba)
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Latin name	Acoelorraphe wrightii (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) H.Wendl. ex Becc.
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico to Panama, USA: Florida; West Indies)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	S[L]
Foliage	E
Ecology	hyg->mes acid
Use	dr fd pl (a desirable ornamental) ti
Synonym	Acoelorraphe arborescens (Sarg.) Becc. Acoelorraphe pinetorum Bartlett Acoelorraphe wrightii Becc. Brahea psilocalyx Burrett Copernicia wrightii Griseb. & H.Wendl. Paurotis androsana O.F.Cook Paurotis wrightii (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) Britton Senenoa arborescens Sarg.
English name	saw paurotis; Everglades palm; hairy tom palmetto, hairy tom, hayry tom palmetto, Honduras pimenta (Belize); paurotis-palm; pimento palm (Belize); saw palmetto, saw-cabbage-palm, silver-saw-palmetto; Spanish top palm (Bahamas); Spanish-top
French name	paurotis de Wright
Spanish name	guano prieto (Cuba); palma (Belize); palma Cuba (Costa Rica); palmetto, papta, prementa, primenta, taciste, tasiste (Belize)
Other name	chi-it, pim-iént, pim-int, ta-sis-te (maya, Belize)
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Latin name	Acosmium Schott
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution
North America distribution zone
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Synonym	Leptolobium Vogel Sweetia Spreng. p.p. Thalesia Mart. ex Pfeiff.
English name	acosmium
French name	acosmium
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Latin name	Acosmium panamense (Benth.) Yakovlev
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico to Panama) N South America (Colombia, Venezuela)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	L
Foliage	E
Ecology	hyg->mes calc
Use	dr (bark used as remedy for fever) ma ti (boats, bridge timbers, cabinet work, coach-building, furniture, heavy construction, implements, musical instruments, railroad ties, wheels)
Synonym	Dalbergia laevigata Standl. Sweetia panamensis Benth.
English name	Panama acosmium; billy webb (Belize); Billy Webb sweetia
French name	acosmium du Panama
Spanish name	bálsamo amarillo, bálsamo oloroso (Mexico); bilihuete (Honduras); carboncillo, carbonillo (Costa Rica); cencerro, chakté (Mexico); chichipate (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras); corteza de Honduras (Mexico); coyote (Honduras); guayacan (Costa Rica); guayacán, huesillo (Mexico); malvecino (Panama); palo de vaca (Honduras); quina silvestre (Guatemala)
Other name	yacti
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Latin name	Acrocomia Mart.
Family	Palmae
Distribution
North America distribution zone
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English name	acrocomia; grugru palm
French name	acrocomia
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Latin name	Acrocomia aculeata (Jacq.) Lodd. ex C.Mart.
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico to Panama, West Indies) South America (tropics)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M[L]
Foliage	E
Ecology	hel mes->xer calc
Use	cl dr (pip has medicinal properties) fd (flour extracted from trunk gives mixed with water an heady drink, fruits are an important nutritious resource for Aborigenas from Chaco to Paraguay, fruits used to prepare wine and brandy, pipes are eaten raw and cooked and contain a fat acid easy to extract, seed and mesocarpe used to prepare thick syrup) fr (residues of the pipes used to feed birds) ma (acid of the pipes used in Paraguay to prepare acid and soap, oil) pl ti (poles, rustic constructions)
Synonym	Acrocomia belizensis L.H.Bailey Acrocomia fusiformis Maycock non (Sw.) Sweet Acrocomia lasiospatha Griseb. Acrocomia lasiospatha Mart. Acrocomia mexicana Karw. ex Mart. Acrocomia sclerocarpa Duss non Mart. Acrocomia totai Mart. Cocos aculeatus Jacq.
English name	grugru acrocomia; butter tree (Lesser Antilles); coyol, coyoli palm; grugru palm (Belize); gru-gru palm; macaw palm, macaya oil, Paraguay palm (Lesser Antilles); suppa palm (Belize)
French name	acrocomia glouglou; coco guinée, corosse (Haiti); dinde, glou glou, glouglou (Dominica, Martinique); grougron (Barbados, Martinique, St. Vincent); palmier glouglou (Dominica, Martinique); palmiste épineux (Martinique)
Spanish name	amankayo (Venezuela); catey, catié (Dominican Republic); cayara (Bolivia); cayiete (Argentina, Paraguay); cocoyal (Belize); cocoyol (Belize, Mexico); cocoyul (Belize); colconab, coquito baboso (Mexico); corojo (Cuba); corozo (Dominican Republic, Mexico, Venezuela); corozo criollo (Dominican Republic); coyol (Central America, Mexico); coyol espinoso, coyol redondo (Mexico); grugou (Dominican Republic); ocori coquito (Argentina, Paraguay); palma de coyol (Mexico); palma de viño (Central America); palma redonda (Mexico); totai (Bolivia); tucuma (Venezuela)
Other name	bacaiuva, bacaiúva, bacaiuveira (Brazil); biga-raagú, coco; coco de catarro (Brazil); coco paraguayo; coco-baboso, coco-de-catarro, coco-de-espinho (Brazil); coyole, coyolli (nahuatl, Mexico); cum; grougrou (Brazil); koko ginen, kowos (creole, Haiti); macacaúba, macaíba, macaibeira, macajá, macajuba, macaúba, macaúva (Brazil); map (huasteco, Mexico); mbocaiá (Argentina, Paraguay); mbocaia-úba (Brazil); mbocaya, mbocayai, mocot; mucaiá, mucajá, mucajuba, noz do Paraguai (Brazil); oretaich, pi-lu; sipa (maya, Belize); suba, supa, ticachiti, totai; tuc, tuk (maya); ubá (Brazil)
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Latin name	Acrocomia karukerana L.H.Bailey
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Guadeloupe)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Use	fd
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English name	Guadeloupe acrocomia
French name	acrocomia dindé; dindé; glou-glou (Guadeloupe); noix-dindé, palmier dindé
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Latin name	Acrocomia media O.F.Cook
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
Foliage	E
Ecology	hel [sci] hyg calc
Use	fd ma ti
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English name	PuertoRico acrocomia; grugru palm (Puerto Rico); poickly palm, prickly palm, Puerto Rico acrocomia
French name	acrocomia de Porto Rico
Spanish name	corozo; palma de corozo (Puerto Rico)
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Latin name	Acrocomia pilosa Léon
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	pilose acrocomia
French name	acrocomia poilu
Spanish name	corojo (Cuba)
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Latin name	Acrocomia quisqueyana L.H.Bailey
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Hispaniola)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage	E
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English name	corozo acrocomia
French name	acrocomia corossier; corosse, corossier (Haiti)
Spanish name	corozo criollo (Dominican Republic)
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Latin name	Acrocomia sclerocarpa Mart.
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (Mexico: Yucatán to Panama) N ME South America (Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil: Ceara)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Use	fd fr ma ti
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English name	mucaja acrocomia
French name	acrocomia à fruits durs
Spanish name	chicle monposino (Colombia); corozo (Venezuela); corozo redondo, tamaca (Colombia)
Other name	côco baboso, côco de catarro, macaúba, mucajuba, mucujá (Brazil)
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Latin name	Acrocomia spinosa (Mill.) H.E.Moore
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end Jamaica)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage	E
Ecology	hel
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Synonym	Acrocomia fusiformis (Sw.) Sweet Bactris globosa Gaertn. Cocos fusiformis Sw. Palma spinosa Mill.
English name	maccafat acrocomia; maccafat (Jamaica)
French name	acrocomia épineux
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Latin name	Acrocomia subinermis Léon ex L.H.Bailey
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (end? Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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English name	unarmed acrocomia
French name	acrocomia inerme
Spanish name	corojo (Cuba)
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Latin name	Acrocomia vinifera Oerst.
Family	Palmae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica, Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S[M]
Foliage	E
Ecology
Use	fd (inner kernel, palm wine made by fermenting the whitish sap) fr (fruits)
Synonym	Acrocomia panamensis L.H.Bailey
English name	totaipalm acrocomia
French name	acrocomia vin-de-palme
Spanish name	coyol (Costa Rica)
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Latin name	Actinostemon Mart. ex Klotzsch
Family	Euphorbiaceae
Distribution
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Synonym	Dactylostemon Klotzsch
English name	actinostemon
French name	actinostemon
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Latin name	Actinostemon caribaeus Griseb.
Family	Euphorbiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Lesser Antilles) NC South America (Venezuela)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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Synonym	Actinostemon concolor var. caribaeus (Griseb.) Müll.Arg. Excoecaria caribaea Griseb.
English name	Caribbean actinostemon
French name	actinostemon des Caraïbes
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Latin name	Adelia L.
Family	Euphorbiaceae
Distribution
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Synonym	Adelia P.Browne Ricinella Müll.Arg.
English name	adelia; wild lime
French name	adelia
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Latin name	Adelia barbinervis Schltdl. & Cham.
Family	Euphorbiaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Costa Rica)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	S?
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English name	hairynerved adelia; bastard lemoncillo (Belize)
French name	adelia à nervures pubescentes
Spanish name	carbo negro (Belize)
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Latin name	Adelia oaxacana (Müll.Arg.) Hemsl.
Family	Euphorbiaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico: Chiapas, Yucatán)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	S?
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Synonym	Ricinella oaxacana Müll.Arg.
English name	Oaxaca adelia
French name	adelia d'Oaxaca
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Latin name	Adelia ricinella L.
Family	Euphorbiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (West Indies) NW NC South America (Curaçao, Colombia, Venezuela, Tobago)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage	D
Ecology	hel mes->xer calc
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Synonym	Adelia haemiolandra (Griseb.) Pax & K.Hoffm. Adelia pedunculosa A.Rich. Adelia sylvestris Griseb. Ditaxis haemiolandra Griseb. Ricinella pedunculosa Müll.Arg. Ricinella ricinella (L.) Britton ex P.Wilson Ricinella sylvestris Müll.Arg.
English name	wildlime adelia; wild lime (Jamaica)
French name	adelia citron-marron; citroin marron, grenade marron
Spanish name	cotorro; escambron, espinillo (Puerto Rico); gavilan, jía, jía blanca (Cuba); polegallo (Venezuela); ricinella; trejo (Dominican Republic)
Other name	grenad mawon, sibwan mawon (creole, Haiti)
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Latin name	Adelia triloba (Müll.Arg.) Hemsl.
Family	Euphorbiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Nicaragua to Panama) MW MC South America (Ecuador: Los Ríos; Bolivia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Synonym	Ricinella triloba Müll.Arg.
English name	threelobed adelia; copperleaf, Jacob's coat
French name	adelia trilobé
Spanish name	espino de playa, espino negra (Nicaragua)
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Latin name	Adelobotrys DC.
Family	Melastomataceae
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English name	adelobotrys
French name	adelobotrys
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Latin name	Adelobotrys adscendens (Sw.) Triana
Family	Melastomataceae
Distribution	SE North America (Guatemala to Panama) South America (tropics)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Synonym	Adelobotrys guianensis (DC.) Gleason Adelobotrys multiflora Pilg. Davya adscendens (Sw.) Griseb. Davya guianensis DC. Davya peruviana DC. Marshallfieldia boissierriana Cogn. Melastoma adscendens Sw. Miconia scendens Ruiz & Pav.
English name	halferect adelobotrys
French name	adelobotrys mi-dressé
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Other name	eguei (waorani, Ecuador); tietie (maya, Belize)
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Latin name	Adelobotrys panamensis Almeda
Family	Melastomataceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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English name	Panama adelobotrys
French name	adelobotrys du Panama
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Latin name	Adenaria Kunth
Family	Lythraceae
Distribution
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English name	adenaria
French name	adenaria
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Latin name	Adenaria floribunda Kunth
Family	Lythraceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico to Panama) South America (tropics)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	S
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Use	dr
Synonym	Adenaria floribunda var. grisleoides (Kunth) Koehne Adenaria floribunda var. purpurata (Kunth) Koehne Adenaria grisleoides Kunth Adenaria lanceolata Beurl. Adenaria purpurata Kunth Antherylium floribundum (Kunth) Spreng. Antherylium grisleoides (Kunth) Spreng. Antherylium purpuratum (Kunth) Spreng.
English name	flowering adenaria
French name	adenaria fleuri
Spanish name	bolsillo; chaparral (Colombia); fruta de pavo, fruto de pavo (Guatemala); guayabito, morochillo
Other name	nobeshan piti (Peru); uchu uchu (Bolivia)
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Latin name	Adenophaedra (Müll.Arg.) Müll.Arg.
Family	Euphorbiaceae
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Synonym	Bernardia sect. Adenophaedra Müll.Arg.
English name	adenophaedra
French name	adenophaedra
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Latin name	Adenophaedra grandifolia (Klotzsch) Müll.Arg.
Family	Euphorbiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica, Panama) N MW South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador: Pastaza; Peru)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage
Ecology	sci
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Synonym	Bernardia denticulata ( Standl.) Webster Bernardia grandifolia (Klotzsch) Müll.Arg. Cleidon denticulatum Standl. Tragia grandifolia Klotzsch
English name	bigleaf adenophaedra
French name	adenophaedra à grandes feuilles
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Latin name	Adenostoma Hook. & Arn.
Family	Rosaceae
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English name	chamise
French name	adenostoma
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Latin name	Adenostoma fasciculatum Hook. & Arn.
Family	Rosaceae
Distribution	MW North America (USA: California, Nevada; Mexico: N Baja California)
North America distribution zone	MW
Height	S?
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English name	greasewood chamise; common chamise
French name	adenostoma fasciculé
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