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Swietenia macrophylla

King (1886)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Sapindales Family: Meliaceae Genus: Swietenia

big leaf mahagony, Brazilian mahogany, broad-leaved mahogany, Honduras mahogany

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Description

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Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Only found in cultivation
O'ahu Naturalized
Maui Naturalized

Dispersal Agents

Wind
Forestry

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Hooker's Icon. Pl. 16: t. 1550 (1886)

Other References

Meidell et al. 1998:6 (NEWNAT/O, WM); Staples & Herbst 2005:400 (DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Swietenia macrophylla Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Alien dominated forest. Preserved_Specimen Meidell, J.S. 201 Maui BISH 1997-07-05
2 Swietenia macrophylla Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Big Valley, just north of Stillwater Dam. Cultivated Preserved_Specimen Tree 20 m tall with spreading crown, trunk 80 cm dbh, bark rough, dk. brown, flaking. Leaves shiny green above. inflorescence and buds green. Cultivated Lorence, D.H. 10336 Kauai BISH 2012-07-02
3 Swietenia macrophylla Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Shady wet/mesic forest in gulch. Surrounded by Aleurites moluccanus, Cordyline fruiticosa, Clidemia hirta, Spathodea campanulata. Preserved_Specimen 10 m in height in most trees, original forestry trees are even taller. Arthur, K. 10 Oahu BISH 2025-01-13
4 Swietenia macrophylla Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Shady wet/mesic forest in gulch. Surrounded by Aleurites moluccanus, Cordyline fruiticosa, Clidemia hirta, Spathodea campanulata. Preserved_Specimen 10 m in height in most trees, original forestry trees are even taller. Arthur, K. 10 Oahu BISH 2025-01-13
5 Swietenia macrophylla Koloa, NTBG, McBryde Garden, Big Valley, W bank, Lawai Stream, near Stillwater Dam Preserved_Specimen 16 m x 50 cm tree, bark rough, flaking; fruit erect, brown, woody, dehiscing on tree into 5 segments, seeds winged Lorence, D.H. 8806 Kauai BISH 2001-11-07
6 Swietenia macrophylla Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Young tree, about 7 meters tall, bark gray and cracked, leaves glossy. New growth much lighter in color than older leaves. Inflorescences mostly axillary, but clustered at the tips of branches, petals and staminal tube yellowish green. Brock, K. 844 Kauai BISH 2016-06-03
7 Swietenia macrophylla Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Alien dominated forest in a gulch. Site is within a half mile of an area of known historic cultivation of this taxa. It is apparent from the presence of all size classes of plants and the geographic range they occupy that it ahs naturalized and is spreading. Hundreds of vigorous plants observed. Preserved_Specimen Meidell, J.S. 201 Maui BISH 1997-05-05
8 Swietenia macrophylla Koloa, NTBG, McBryde Garden, Big Valley, W bank, Lawai Stream, near Stillwater Dam Preserved_Specimen 16 m x 50 cm tree, bark rough, flaking; fruit erect, brown, woody, dehiscing on tree into 5 segments, seeds winged Lorence, D.H. 8805 Kauai BISH 2001-11-07
9 Swietenia macrophylla Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 10 m tree Woodward, L. Oahu BISH 1994-07-03
10 Swietenia macrophylla Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Tree 10 meters tall, (smallest one in area) others much taller. No fruits seen on smaller trees from which branch was collected. Fruit from ground under larger trees. Wood sample from branch of smaller tree. Woodward, L. Oahu BISH 1994-07-03
11 Swietenia macrophylla Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 10 m tree Woodward, L. Oahu BISH 1994-07-03
12 Swietenia macrophylla Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Tree 10 meters tall, (smallest one in area) others much taller. No fruits seen on smaller trees from which branch was collected. Fruit from ground under larger trees. Wood sample from branch of smaller tree. Woodward, L. Oahu BISH 1994-07-03
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