Summary
Place of publication:
Prodr. 1:578. 1824
Comment:
authorship verified from original literature
Verified:
05/13/2012
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
acerola – Barbados-cherry – West Indian-cherry – French
cerise de Cayenne – cerisier de Barbade – cerisier des Antilles – German
Barbadoskirsche – westindische Kirsche – Portuguese
cerejeira-das-Antilhas – Spanish (Panama)
grosella – Swedish
barbadoskörsbär –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Guerrero | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Oaxaca | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Yucatan | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Belize | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Guatemala | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | French Guiana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Ecuador | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | |
4 | Naturalized | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Florida | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Anguilla | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Antigua and Barbuda | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Barbados | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Cayman Islands | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Cuba | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Dominica | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Grenada | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Guadeloupe | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Haiti | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Jamaica | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Martinique | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Netherlands Antilles | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Puerto Rico | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Kitts and Nevis | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Lucia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Vincent and Grenadines | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Trinidad and Tobago | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Virgin Islands (U.S.) | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Nicaragua | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Panama | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | | |
6 | Other | | | | | |
Native
Northern America
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SOUTHERN MEXICO:
Mexico [Guerrero, Oaxaca, Yucatan]
Southern America
-
MESOAMERICA:
Belize, Guatemala
-
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
French Guiana, Venezuela
-
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia, Ecuador
Cultivated
()
Naturalized
Northern America
-
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Florida]
Southern America
-
CARIBBEAN:
Anguilla, Netherlands Antilles, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Virgin Islands (U.S.)
-
MESOAMERICA:
Nicaragua, Panama
-
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Venezuela
-
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Peru
Other
()
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | fruit | | Howard, R. Flora of the lesser Antilles. 1974-1989 |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=404858.
Accessed 20 September 2024.