Psidium

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Psidium
Temporal range: Paleogene–Recent
Guava (Psidium guajava)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Subfamily: Myrtoideae
Tribe: Myrteae
Genus: Psidium
L.[1]
Species[2]

78; see text

Synonyms[2]
  • Calyptropsidium O.Berg
  • Corynemyrtus (Kiaersk.) Mattos
  • Cuiavus Trew
  • Episyzygium Suess. & A.Ludw.
  • Guajava Mill.
  • Guayaba Noronha
  • Mitranthes O.Berg
  • Mitropsidium Burret

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] Many of the species bear edible fruits, and for this reason several are cultivated commercially.[4] The most popularly cultivated species is the common guava, Psidium guajava.

Taxonomy

new leaves of Psidium in West Bengal, India.

This genus was described first by Linnaeus in 1753.[5][6]

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

Species

78 species are accepted.[2]

  1. Psidium acidum (Mart. ex DC.) Landrum – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and northern Brazil
  2. Psidium acranthum Urb. – Hispaniola
  3. Psidium acutangulum DC. – Colombia and Venezuela to Bolivia and west-central Brazil
  4. Psidium albescens Urb. – Jamaica
  5. Psidium amplexicaule Pers. – Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Leeward Is., and northeastern Brazil
  6. Psidium appendiculatum Kiaersk. – northern Venezuela and eastern Brazil
  7. Psidium araucanum Soares-Silva & Proença – São Paulo, Paraná
  8. Psidium australe Cambess. – central Colombia to Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina (Misiones)
  9. Psidium bahianum Landrum & Funch – Bahia
  10. Psidium brevipedunculatum Tuler & Landrum – Bahia
  11. Psidium brownianum Mart. ex DC. – northeast Brazil
  12. Psidium cattleyanum Sabine – eastern and southern Brazil and Uruguay; naturalized and invasive in Hawaii
  13. Psidium cauliflorum Landrum & Sobral – Bahia
  14. Psidium cupreum O.Berg – Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro
  15. Psidium densicomum Mart. ex DC. – Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, northwestern Brazil, Peru, and Colombia
  16. Psidium donianum O.Berg – Maranhão
  17. Psidium eugenii Kiaersk. – southeastern Brazil
  18. Psidium firmum O.Berg – Brazil
  19. Psidium friedrichsthalianum (O.Berg) Nied. – southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela
  20. Psidium fulvum McVaugh – Peru
  21. Psidium ganevii Landrum & Funch – Bahia
  22. Psidium glaziovianum Kiaersk. – southeastern Brazil
  23. Psidium grandifolium Mart. ex DC. – Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina
  24. Psidium grazielae Tuler & M.C.Souza – Espírito Santo
  25. Psidium guajava L. – Central and South America, West Indies, Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, Arizona;[8] naturalized in parts of Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and on numerous oceanic islands
  26. Psidium guayaquilense Landrum & Cornejo – Ecuador
  27. Psidium guineense Sw. – Central and South America, Windward Islands, and Mexico
  28. Psidium guyanense Pers. – northern Brazil, Venezuela, and French Guiana
  29. Psidium harrisianum Urb. – Jamaica
  30. Psidium huanucoense Landrum – Huánuco
  31. Psidium × hypoglaucum Standl. (P. guajava × P. guineense) – Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras
  32. Psidium inaequilaterum O.Berg – southeastern Brazil
  33. Psidium involutisepalum Tuler, Carrijo & Peixoto – Rio de Janeiro
  34. Psidium itanareense O.Berg – São Paulo
  35. Psidium jacquinianum (O.Berg) Mattos – unknown; likely South America
  36. Psidium kennedyanum Morong – Brazil, Paraguay, NE Argentina
  37. Psidium langsdorffii O.Berg – Minas Gerais
  38. Psidium laruotteanum Cambess. – Costa Rica to Paraguay
  39. Psidium longipetiolatum D.Legrand – southern Brazil
  40. Psidium macahense O.Berg – Espírito Santo to Rio de Janeiro
  41. Psidium maribense Mart. ex DC. – Colombia, Venezuela, N Brazil
  42. Psidium minutifolium Krug & Urb. – Cuba
  43. Psidium misionum D.Legrand – Paraguay and Misiones
  44. Psidium montanum Sw. – Jamaica
  45. Psidium myrsinites DC. – Brazil
  46. Psidium myrtoides O.Berg – Brazil
  47. Psidium nannophyllum Alain – Dominican Rep
  48. Psidium nummularia (C.Wright ex Griseb.) C.Wright – Cuba
  49. Psidium nutans O.Berg – Brazil and northeastern Argentina
  50. Psidium oblongatum O.Berg – Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo
  51. Psidium oblongifolium O.Berg – southeastern Brazil
  52. Psidium occidentale Landrum & Parra-Os. – southwestern Colombia and Ecuador
  53. Psidium oligospermum Mart. ex DC. (synonyms Psidium sartorianum and Psidium sintenisii) – Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, to tropical South America
  54. Psidium oncocalyx Burret – Bahia
  55. Psidium ovale (Spreng.) Burret – Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina
  56. Psidium parvifolium Griseb. – Cuba
  57. Psidium pedicellatum McVaugh – Colombia, Ecuador
  58. Psidium pigmeum Arruda – southeastern Brazil
  59. Psidium pulcherrimum Tuler & C.M.Costa – Bahia
  60. Psidium raimondii Burret – Peru
  61. Psidium ramboanum Mattos – Mato Grosso
  62. Psidium ratterianum Proença & Soares-Silva – Brasília
  63. Psidium refractum O.Berg – Goiás
  64. Psidium rhombeum O.Berg – Bahia
  65. Psidium riparium Mart. ex DC. – Brazil
  66. Psidium robustum O.Berg – Maranhão, Minas Gerais, São Paulo
  67. Psidium rostratum McVaugh – Peru
  68. Psidium rotundatum Griseb. – Cuba
  69. Psidium rotundidiscum Proença & Tuler – Bahia
  70. Psidium rufum Mart. ex DC. – Brazil
  71. Psidium rutidocarpum Ruiz & Pav. ex G.Don – Peru
  72. Psidium salutare (Kunth) O.Berg – Central and South America, West Indies, southern Mexico
  73. Psidium schenckianum Kiaersk. – eastern Brazil
  74. Psidium sessiliflorum (Landrum) Proença & Tuler – western Bahia
  75. Psidium sorocabense O.Berg – southeastern Brazil
  76. Psidium striatulum DC. – Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
  77. Psidium suffruticosum O.Berg – eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, central, southeastern, and southern Brazil
  78. Psidium urquiolanum Landrum & Z.Acosta – eastern Cuba

References

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  2. ^ a b c Psidium L. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  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. ^ Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull, ed. (2008). The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts (illustrated ed.). CABI. ISBN 9780851996387.
  5. ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 470 in Latin
  6. ^ Tropicos, Psidium L.
  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. Bibcode:2016HBio...28..459P. doi:10.1080/08912963.2014.976635. hdl:11336/19131. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 84988707.
  8. ^ Biota of North America 2013 county distribution map, Psidium guajava
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