Swietenia

Also known as mahogany

Swietenia is a genus of trees in the chinaberry family, Meliaceae. It occurs natively in the Neotropics, from southern Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America south to Bolivia. The genus is named for Dutch-Austrian physician Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772). The wood of Swietenia trees is known as mahogany.

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Vinony's link graph records 431 inbound references to Swietenia, and connects out to Meliaceae, bucksaw and Mexico.

It sits within the topics Meliaceae genera, Swietenia and Taxonbars with 20–24 taxon IDs.

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Species

GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderSapindales
FamilyMeliaceae

Native toBahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador

Observations recorded11,278

Common Name: mahogany

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 113
With media: 36
Family: Meliaceae
Collections: INECOL, IBUNAM, CAS, CHAS, A, CM
Recorded in: Mexico, Belice, United States, Brazil, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brasil, Bahamas

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Meliaceae
Image: Fruit with leaves at Branch Canopy I IMG 8673.jpg

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taxon rank: genus
taxon name: Swietenia
Commons category: Swietenia
topic's main category: Category:Swietenia
GRIN URL: npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=11743
Commons gallery: Swietenia
taxon common name: 桃花心木属

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Overview
Species
Formerly placed here now in Meliaceae
Uses
Conservation
References
Further reading

==Overview== The genus was introduced into several Asian countries as a replacement source of mahogany timber around the time it was restricted in its native locations in the late 1990s. Trade in Asian grown plantation mahogany is not restricted. Fiji and India are the largest exporters of plantation mahogany and wild mahogany remains commercially unavailable to this day.

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