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Pseudolmedia
Sign in to savePseudolmedia is a flowering plant genus in the mulberry family (Moraceae). Species are found in southern Mexico, the Caribbean, and Meso- and South America. They are known in Latin America as lechechiva (approximately "goat's milk tree") and used for timber, construction wood, and sometimes in folk medicine.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderRosales
- FamilyMoraceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 275
- With media
- 111
- Family
- Moraceae
- Collections
- UACH, IBUNAM, CENARGEN, CAS, DAV, NY
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Belice, Brasil, Ecuador, ColôMbia
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Castilleae
- Image
- Lechudo (pseudolmedia osyphyllaria).jpg
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- Category:Pseudolmedia
- taxon name
- Pseudolmedia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- pseudolmedia
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- Pseudolmedia
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Pseudolmedia is a flowering plant genus in the mulberry family (Moraceae). Species are found in southern Mexico, the Caribbean, and Meso- and South America. They are known in Latin America as lechechiva (approximately "goat's milk tree") and used for timber, construction wood, and sometimes in folk medicine.
==Species== 11 species are accepted. Pseudolmedia boliviana Pseudolmedia gentryi C.C.Berg Pseudolmedia glabrata (Liebm.) C.C.Berg, called cherry Pseudolmedia hirtula Kuhlm. Pseudolmedia laevigata Trécul Pseudolmedia laevis (Ruiz & Pav.) J.F.Macbr. (synonym Pseudolmedia ferruginea (Poepp. & Endl.) Trécul (type) *) Pseudolmedia macrophylla Trécul Pseudolmedia manabiensis C.C.Berg Pseudolmedia mollis Standl. Pseudolmedia rigida (Klotzsch & H.Karst.) Cuatrec. Pseudolmedia spuria (Sw.) Griseb. (synonym Pseudolmedia havanensis Trécul (type) *) Note: Despite having been designated as types for this genus, The Plant List and Plants of the World Online consider P. ferruginea to be a synonym of P. laevis; and P. havanensis to be a synonym of P. spuria.
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