Symphonia globulifera explained

Symphonia globulifera, commonly known as boarwood, is a timber tree abundant in Central America, the Caribbean, South America and Africa. This plant is also used as a medicinal plant and ornamental plant.

Common names

Common trade names of the wood of the Symphonia globulifera are: chewstick, chestick, manni, manil, azufre, and Árbol de Leche Maria.

Distribution

Symphonia globulifera is abundant in the Americas (from Mexico and the Caribbean south to Ecuador) and Africa (from Liberia east to Uganda and south to Angola).

Population genetics

S. globulifera is highly structured across Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, while the eastern foothills of the Andes show little diversity.^[1]

See also

• List of plants of Amazon Rainforest vegetation of Brazil

External links

• Web site: Symphonia globulifera . 2008-05-12 . La Selva Digital Flora . Estación Biológica La Selva . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111003163759/http://sura.ots.ac.cr/local/florula3/list_images.php?key_species_code=LS000938&key_genus=Symphonia&specie_name=globulifera . 2011-10-03.
• Web site: Symphonia globulifera Linn. f. . 2008-05-12 . 2002-04-23 . Linnean herbarium (S-LINN) . Swedish Museum of Natural History.
• Web site: Symphonia globulifera . 2008-05-12 . FOURNIER . L.A. . Species Descriptions . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090116123837/http://www.rngr.net/Publications/ttsm/Folder.2003-07-11.4726/PDF.2004-03-16.4154/file . January 16, 2009 .

Notes and References

1. Pennington . R. Toby . Lavin . Matt . Oliveira-Filho . Ary . Woody Plant Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology in the Tropics: Perspectives from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests . . . 40 . 1 . 2009 . 1543-592X . 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.110308.120327 . 437–457.