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Latin name	Guatteria costaricensis R.E.Fr.
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica, Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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English name	CostaRica guatteria
French name	guatteria du Costa Rica
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Latin name	Guatteria cubensis Bisse
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	Cuban guatteria
French name	guatteria de Cuba
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Latin name	Guatteria diospyroides Baill.
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico: Chiapas to Panama)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	L
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Use	dr
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English name	persimmonlike guatteria
French name	guatteria faux-plaqueminier
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Latin name	Guatteria dolichopoda Donn.Sm.
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Honduras to Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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English name	longstalk guatteria
French name	Guatteria à longs pédoncules
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Latin name	Guatteria dumetorum R.E.Fr.
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica, Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
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Use	fr
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English name	tickets guatteria
French name	guatteria des buissons
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Latin name	Guatteria elegantissima R.E.Fr.
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica, Panama) NW South America (Colombia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	graceful guatteria
French name	guatteria gracieux
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Latin name	Guatteria grandiflora Donn.Sm.
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Guatemala)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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English name	bigflower guatteria
French name	guatteria à grandes fleurs
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Latin name	Guatteria inuncta R.E.Fr.
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica, Panama) NC South America (French Guiana)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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Synonym	Cananga ouregou Aubl. Guatteria ouregou (Aubl.) Dunal non Griseb.
English name	anointed guatteria
French name	guatteria huileux
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Latin name	Guatteria lucens Standl.
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Belize to Panama) South America (tropics)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
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English name	shining guatteria
French name	guatteria luisant
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Latin name	Guatteria neglecta (Griseb.) P.Wilson
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Synonym	Asimina neglecta Griseb. Guatteria moralesii (M.Gómez) Urb. Uvaria moralesii M.Gómez
English name	neglected guatteria
French name	guatteria négligé
Spanish name	purio prieto (Cuba)
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Latin name	Guatteria oliviformis Donn.Sm.
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Belize to Panama) South America (tropics)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	oliveshaped guatteria
French name	guatteria en forme d'olive
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Latin name	Guatteria recurvisepala R.E.Fr.
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Nicaragua to Panama) N MW South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
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English name	recurvedsepal guatteria
French name	guatteria à sépales recourbés
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Latin name	Guatteria tonduzii Diels
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Nicaragua to Panama) NW South America (Colombia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
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English name	Tonduz guatteria
French name	guatteria de Tonduz
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Latin name	Guatteria verrucosa R.E.Fr.
Family	Annonaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica) NW MW South America (Colombia, Ecuador)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	verrucose guatteria
French name	guatteria verruqueux
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Latin name	Guazuma Mill.
Family	Sterculiaceae
Distribution
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Synonym	Guazuma Adans.
English name	guazuma; bastard cedar
French name	guazuma
Spanish name	guácimo
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Latin name	Guazuma ulmifolia Lam.
Family	Sterculiaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico to Panama, West Indies) South America (tropics) int MW SW C and E Eurasia W and C Africa
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M[L]
Foliage	D E
Ecology	hel hyg->xer acid->neut calc sili
Use	dr (bark or seed decoction with salt taken orally for digestive tract ailments and bad blood, emolient, green bark tea bath for heat rash, in laboratory test it shows significant antibacterial activity, inner bark compress for burn, inner bark enema for dysentery and hemorrhoids, leaves decoction or maceration for elephantiasis, leaves, bark or seed decoction with sugar taken orally for cold and high blood pressure, macerated bark massage for cough, pulverized bark compress for broken bone and sore, roots and fruits against venereal disease, the bark has been used in treating leprosy and many other disease, fruits and bark used for diarrhea, intestinal problems, renal infection, purgative and diuretic, used as a diarrheic in Nicaragua and Venezuela) fd (fruits are eaten raw when young, when mature are ground into flour or used as a substitute for coffee, honey, sap is used to clarify syrup in making sugar) fr (deer, squirrels, agouti, preccaries and lizard eat the fruits and disperse the seeds, foliage and fruits are valuable fodder for cattle and horses) fw (good firewood and charcoal) ma (bark used to make cords, the wood gives an excellent charcoal used to make a powder) pl (quick set hedge) ti (barrel staves, barrels, fence, boat ribs, cabinet work, carpentry, decorative accessories, fence posts, general heavy construction, gunstocks, heels of shoes, interior construction, joinery, light furniture, musical instruments, posts, railroad ties, shipbuilding, shoemaking, slack cask staves, stake, structural use, tablet, tool handles, woodword) sa (living fences) tx (excessive quantities may cause gastrointestinal ailments)
Synonym	Bubroma grandiflorum Willd. ex Spreng. Bubroma invira Willd. Duiro glossum var. rufescens Turcz. Guazuma bubroma Tuss. Guazuma coriacea Rusby Guazuma grandiflora G.Don Guazuma guazuma (L.) Cockerell p.p. Guazuma invira (Willd.) G.Don Guazuma parvifolia A.Rich. Guazuma polybotrya Cav. Guazuma polybotrya DC. Guazuma tomentosa Kunth Guazuma ulmifolia Mill. Guazuma ulmifolia var. tomentella K.Schum. Guazuma ulmifolia var. tomentosa (Kunth) K.Schum. Guazuma utilis Poepp. & Endl. Theobroma guazuma Aubl.
English name	elmleaf guazuma; ba cedar (Cayman); bastard cedar (Belize, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico); bastard-cedar (Jamaica, Panama, Trinidad); bay cedar, bay-cedar, box cedar (Belize); caulote (Belize); cork bottom wood (Belize); gunstak (Lesser Antilles); pigeon-wood (Tobago); pixoy (Belize); pricklenut (Mexico); West Indian elm (Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad); West-Indian elm (Puerto Rico); wild bay cedar (Belize)
French name	guazuma à feuilles d'orme; bois de hêtre (Haiti, Lesser Antilles); bois de hêtre vert; bois de l'orme (Haiti); bois d'homme (Haiti, Lesser Antilles); bois d'orme (Lesser Antilles); bois l'orme (Trinidad and Tobago); bois madame, coton fleur, coton mahandème, coton soie (Lesser Antilles); hêtre gris (Guadeloupe); hêtre orme; hêtre vert (Guadeloupe); mahandème (Lesser Antilles); mahot-baba; mahot-hêtre (Guadeloupe); orme d'Amérique p.p. (Haiti, Lesser Antilles)
Spanish name	aquiche (Mexico); bolaina (Peru); cabeza de negrito (Panama); cablote (Central America); camba-acá, cambaaca (Argentina); capulin (Honduras); caulote (Central America, Colombia, Mexico); chicharron (El Salvador); coco (Bolivia); contamal (Guatemala); cuaulote (Mexico); guacima (Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Venezuela); guácima (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico); guacima cimarrona (Dominican Republic); guácima cimarrona; guacima de caballo, guácima de caballo (Cuba); guacimillo (Nicaragua); guacimo (Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Venezuela); guácimo (Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama); guacimo blanco, guácimo blanco (Costa Rica); guácimo bolaina negra (Peru); guacimo de ternero (Nicaragua, Panama); guácimo de ternero (Nicaragua); guácimo hembra (Costa Rica); guásima (Cuba); guásima de caballo (Cuba); guasimo (Colombia); gúasimo blanco (Venezuela); guazuma (Argentina, Dominican Republic); guázuma; guazumo (Honduras); guscimo (Mexico); huásimo; iluicho, iumanasi (Peru); jacocalulu (Puerto Rico); lana, lanera (Lesser Antilles); lluicho vainilla, lumanasi (Peru); majagua de toro (Mexico); marmelero (Argentina); miel quemada, naccdero (Colombia); palo de pana (Lesser Antilles); palote negro (Mexico); papa-yillo, papayillo (Peru); pechote, simaron del tzibche (Belize); tablote (Mexico); tapa culo (Guatemala); tapaculo (Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua); tomentosa (Colombia); tzuni, tzuyui, vacima (Mexico); vanilla (Peru); yaco de venado, yaco granadillo (Mexico); yumanase (Peru)
Other name	acashti (totonaco); aj-illá (guarigio); ajya (maya); aquich (huasteco); áquich (nahuatl, Mexico); aquiche (maya); araticum-bravo (Brazil); bwa dehèt, bwa dòm (creole, Haiti); cabeça de negro (Brazil); cambacau (guarani); embira, embireira, embiru, envireira, fruta-de-macaco (Brazil); goeaazoema (Netherlands Antilles); guacimo de ternero (Nicaragua); guamaca, guaxima-macho, guaxima-torcida, guaxuma macho (Brazil); jacocalalu (Virgin Islands); kabal-pixoy (maya); matamba, (Brazil); mutamba (portuguese, Brazil); mutamba-verdadeira, mutambo (Brazil); nipaltuntha (India); nocuana-yana (zapoteco); parandesicua (tarasco); pau-de-bicho, pau-de-pomba, periquiteira (Brazil); pix oy, pixoy (maya, Belize and Guatemala); pojó (Brazil); uiguie (popoluca); xuyuy (Guatemala); ya-ana (zapoteco); zam-mi (chontal)
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Latin name	Guettarda L.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution
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Synonym	Halesia P.Browne Laugeria Jacq. Matthiola L.
English name	velvetseed; common velvet-seed
French name	guettard
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Other name	kal nwa (creole, Haiti)
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Latin name	Guettarda abbottii Urb.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Dominican Republic: Los Haitises, Península de Samaná)
North America distribution zone	SE
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English name	Abbott velvetseed
French name	guettard d'Abbott
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Latin name	Guettarda aculeolata Urb.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Dominican Republic: Azua, Las Cañitas, Constanza, Río Grande)
North America distribution zone	SE
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English name	smallthorns velvetseed
French name	guettard à petites épines
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Latin name	Guettarda argentea Lam.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Hispaniola, Jamaica) NC South America (French Guiana)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Ecology	calc serp
Use	dr? fd (fruits) ti
Synonym	Guettarda argentea var. glabrata Urb. Guettarda constricta Britton Guettarda potamophila Urb. Guettarda speciosa Aubl.
English name	silvery velvetseed; black guava
French name	guettard argenté
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Latin name	Guettarda baracoensis Bisse
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	Baracoa velvetseed
French name	guettard de Baracoa
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Latin name	Guettarda brenesii Standl.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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English name	Brenes velvetseed
French name	guettard de Brenes
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Latin name	Guettarda brevinodis Urb.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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Ecology	calc
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Synonym	Guettarda membranaceae Griseb. non Sw
English name	shortnode velvetseed
French name	guettard à noeuds courts
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Latin name	Guettarda calyptrata A.Rich.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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Synonym	Matthiola calyptrata (A.Rich.) Kuntze
English name	Cuban velvetseed
French name	guettard de Cuba
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Latin name	Guettarda combsii Urb.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Mexico: Yucatán; Belize, Nicaragua, Cuba)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
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Ecology	hyg
Use	dr ma ti
Synonym	Guettarda scabra var. seleriana Loes. Guettarda seleriana (Loes.) Standl.
English name	glassy velvetseed; glassy wood, glossy wood, green star, pine-ridge glossy wood (Belize)
French name	guettard vitreux
Spanish name	arepa (Belize); hueso, jagüilla de monte (Cuba); verde lucero (Belize)
Other name	ta stab, ta-stab, tastab, tas'tap, tas-tas (maya, Belize); xtez-tab (maya)
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Latin name	Guettarda crispiflora Vahl.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Nicaragua to Panama, Lesser Antilles) N MW MC South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
Foliage	E
Ecology	hel hyg
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Synonym	Matthiola crispiflora (Vahl) Kuntze
English name	curledflower velvetseed
French name	guettard bois-flot-montagne; bois flot des hauts, bois flot montagne (Lesser Antilles)
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Latin name	Guettarda crispiflora Vahl ssp. crispiflora
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Lesser Antilles)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L?
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English name	typical curledflower velvetseed
French name	guettard bois-flot-montagne typique
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Latin name	Guettarda crispiflora ssp. poasana (Standl.) C.M.Taylor
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Nicaragua, Costa Rica)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Synonym	Guettarda poasana Standl.
English name	Poas curledflower velvetseed
French name	guettard bois-flot-montagne de Poas
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Latin name	Guettarda crispiflora ssp. sabiceoides (Standl.) C.M.Taylor
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica, Panama) N MW MC South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Synonym	Guettarda chiriquiensis Standl. Guettarda conferta Benth. Guettarda crispiflora var. sabiceoides (Standl.) Steyerm. Guettarda cuatrecasii Standl. ex Steyerm. Guettarda ochreata Schltdl. Guettarda pichisensis Standl. Guettarda sabiceoides Standl. Guettarda sordida Standl. ex Steyerm. Matthiola conferta (Benth.) Kuntze
English name	falsesabicea curledflower velvetseed
French name	guettard bois-flot-montagne faux-sabicea
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Latin name	Guettarda deamii Standl.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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English name	Deam velvetseed
French name	guettard de Deam
Spanish name	fruta de mico
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