Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Meliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A large tree, sometime- 25 m. high with a trunk 4 m. in diameter, buttressed at the base, the reddish bark scaly, the branches spreading, the angular twigs smooth. Leaves evenly pinnate, 1-2 dm. long, the slender petiole enlarged at the base; leaflets 48, coriaceous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, inequilateral, 3-8 cm. long, dark-green, glabrous and shining above, paler green and glabrous or sparingly pubescent beneath; panicles axillary, 6-15 cm. long; calyx-lobes rounded; petals white, spreading, about 4 mm. long; stamen-tube glabrous; ovary ovoid; style erect; stigma 5-rayed; capsule ovoid, woody, 6-12 cm. long, splitting from the base into 5 thick valves, the 5-winged axis persistent; seeds about 18 mm. long, the wing obtuse.
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Distribution
Coppices find scrub-lands, Abaco. Great Bahama, Lignum Vitae Cay, Andros, New Providence, Great Guana Cay, Exuma. Long Island, Eleuthera to Watling's, Acklin's, Crooked Island, Mariguana, the Caicos and Inagua : Florida ; West Indies ; Mexico to Peru. Mahogany. Madeira. Catesby, 2 : pi. 81.
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