Project Meliaceae
Species: Swietenia macrophylla
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that are involved with these species. We need your help! If you have a
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Information on Swietenia macrophylla
Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?35955
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?35951
Link verified 2 June 2004
Bauer, Gerald P.; Francis, John K. 1998. Swietenia macrophylla
King. SO-ITF-SM-81. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 7 p. (Spanish)
http://www.fs.fed.us/global/iitf/Swieteniamacrophylla.pdf
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of Swietenia macrophylla
Danish Forest Seed Centre
http://www.dfsc.dk/pdf/Seedleaflets/Swietenia%20macrophylla_int.pdf
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of Swietenia macrophylla
Source: Wildscreen Trust
http://www.arkive.org/species/speciesOverview.do?id=5125
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of Swietenia macrophylla
Natural Resource Conservation Service, US Department of
Agriculture
http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=SWMA
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of Swietenia macrophylla, especially the wood
(Spanish)
Especies maderables CITES
Jardín Botánico de Córdoba (España)
por Dr. Miguel A. Vales, Prof. Dr. Margarita Clemente Muñoz, Dr.
Luis García Esteban
http://www.uco.es/jardin-botanico/cd1/Maderas%20CITES/swmacro.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of Swietenia macrophylla (Portuguese)
O Clube da Semente do Brasil
http://www.clubedasemente.org.br/mogno.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of Swietenia macrophylla (Portuguese)
Àvores do Brasil
Eugênio Arantes de Melo
http://www.arvore.hpg.ig.com.br/mogno1/index.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of Swietenia macrophylla (Portuguese)
Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Florestais
http://www.ipef.br/identificacao/nativas/detalhes.asp?codigo=66
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of Swietenia macrophylla (Portuguese)
Mogno-Brasileiro
Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Quieroz"
http://www.esalq.usp.br/trilhas/lei/lei20.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of Swietenia macrophylla (Spanish)
Source: MundoForestal
General description, location information for Costa Rica
http://www.elmundoforestal.com/elcorazon/caoba/caoba.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
Cultivo de árboles nativos de Panamá: Caoba (Swietenia
macrophylla King)
Proyecto de Reforestación con Especies Nativas (PRORENA)
Centro de Ciencias Forestales del Trópico (CTFS)del Instituto
Smithsonian
de Investigaciones Tropicales (STRI)ny el Instituto de Recursos
Tropicales de Yale (YTRI)
http://research.yale.edu/prorena/publicaciones_files/folleto_3_caoba.pdf
http://research.yale.edu/prorena/el_proyecto.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of Swietenia macrophylla (Spanish)
Source: Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la
biodiversidad (Conabio)
General description, location information for Mexico
http://www.conabio.gob.mx/conocimiento/info_especies/arboles/doctos/37-melia5m.pdf
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of Swietenia macrophylla silviculture
(Spanish)
Source: Comisión Forestal Nacional de México
http://www.conafor.gob.mx/programas_nacionales_forestales/pronare/Fichas%20Tecnicas/Swietenia%20macrophylla.pdf
Link verified 2 June 2004
Information on Swietenia macrophylla
Source: AliceWeb 2.3 Trial Pages
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/7314/aw/16.html
Portuguese
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/fd95/webs/portdemo/16.htm
http://www.alicesoftware.com/webs/trees/aweb/td001/td_00016.htm
Links verified 2 June 2004
Technical note on Swietenia macrophylla silviculture
(Spanish)
Source: El Semillero, Bogatá, Colombia
http://www.elsemillero.net/Notatecnica/Hist%F3ricos/Caoba1.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Photographs of fruits and seed of Swietenia macrophylla from
Santa Rosa National Park, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa
Rica
Photographer Hugh Wilson
Digital Flora of Texas: Vascular Plant Image Library
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/imaxxmel.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Photographs of bark, leaves, fruits, and seed of Swietenia
macrophylla
John Brown
Paul Smith's College
http://webpages.paulsmiths.edu/~brownj/tropical_ecology/trees.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
Photographs of tree, leaves, bark, wood, fruits, and seed
of Swietenia macrophylla (Portuguese)
Some description
Amazonlink.org
Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
http://www.amazonlink.org/sementesamazonia/mongo.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Photograps of tree and flowers of Swietenia macrophylla
Nomenclature Database
Tropicos
Missouri Botanical Garden
http://mobot.mobot.org/cgi-bin/search_vast?onda=N20400346
Link verified 2 June 2004
Specimen list of Swietenia macrophylla
New York Botanical Garden
http://scisun.nybg.org:8890/searchdb/owa/wwwspecimen.search_list?taxon=Swietenia+macrophylla&projcode=NETR
http://scisun.nybg.org:8890/searchdb/owa/wwwspecimen.search_list?taxon=Swietenia+macrophylla+King+++++&projcode=VASC
Links verified 2 June 2004
Lista de especimenes de Swietenia macrophylla en
Costa Rica
Manual de la Flora de Costa Rica
Copyright © Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad y Missouri
Botanical Garden, 1995
http://www.mobot.org/manual.plantas/025120/S025303.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
Sequence data for Swietenia macrophylla
National Biotech Info Center
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=43891&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock
Link verified 2 June 2004
Photograph of wood section
The Freeman Corporation, Winchester, KY
Veneer producers
http://www.freemancorp.com/veneers/mahoganyfla.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
Información taxonómica de Switenia macrophylla
con fotos y dibujos
Center For Tropical Forest Science, Panama
http://ctfs.si.edu/webatlas/spanish/swiema.html
http://ctfs.si.edu
Link verified 2 June 2004
Drawing of Switenia macrophylla
UDSA Forest Service Collection
http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/USDA/USDA-Drawings-14.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
Wood of the Month: The Fascinating Tale of Mahogany
By Jo-Ann Kaiser
Description of wood of
Swietenia macrophylla
Industrial Strength Woodworking (ISW Online)
http://www.iswonline.com/wwp/wom/mahogany.shtml
Link verified 2 June 2004
Wood Characteristics of Swietenia macrophylla
Technology Transfer Sheet
Center for Wood Anatomy Research
From: Chudnoff, Martin. 1984. Tropical Timbers of the World. USDA
Forest Service. Ag. Handbook No. 607.
http://128.104.77.230/TechSheets/Chudnoff/TropAmerican/html_files/swiete1new.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
http://www2.fpl.fs.fed.us/TechSheets/Chudnoff/TropAmerican/html_files/swiete1new.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
Photographs and characteristics o f wood of Swietenia macrophylla,
and use for flooring
Wood Flooring International, Delran, NJ
http://www.wflooring.com/Technical_Info/Species_Tech_Info/Species_Pages/mahogany_honduran.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of wood of
Swietenia macrophylla
http://www.woodworkersauction.com/sammahogpage.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Wood characteristics of Swietenia macrophylla (Portuguese)
ADA - Agência de Desenvolvimento de Amazônia
http://www.ada.gov.br/amazonia/madeiras.asp
Link verified 2 June 2004
Description of wood of Swietenia macrophylla (French)
H. G. Richter and M. J. Dallwitz
Includes photos of microscopic detail
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/wood/french/melswmac.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in Mesoamerican hotspot of
biodiversity
Conservation International
http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots/mesoamerica/?showpage=Biodiversity
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in National Parks in Bolivia
http://www.andesamazon.com/florayfauna.html
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Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in forest types in Bolivia
Source: FOREST mailing list
http://www.metla.fi/archive/forest/1994/08/msg00055.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in forest types at the
Biosphere reserve El Ocote, Chiapas
(Spanish)
http://www.chiapas.com.mx/Bellezas/Reservas/el_ocote2.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in the Peten Region and
Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala
Source: Centers of Plant Diversity of the Americas, the Smithsonian
Institute
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/cpd/ma/ma13.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in the Lacondon Rain Forest
Region, Mexico
Source: Centers of Plant Diversity of the
Americas, the Smithsonian Institute
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/cpd/ma/ma1.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in the Uxpanapa-Chimalapa
Region, Mexico
Source: Centers of Plant Diversity of the Americas, the Smithsonian
Institute
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/cpd/ma/ma2.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in the North-East Honduras
and Río Plata Biosphere Reserve, Honduras
Source: Centers of Plant Diversity of the Americas, the Smithsonian
Institute
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/cpd/ma/ma15.htm#references
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in Darien Province and
Darien National Park, Panama
Source: Centers of Plant Diversity of the Americas, the Smithsonian
Institute
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/cpd/ma/ma20.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in Yasuni National Park and
Waorani Ethnic Reserve, Ecuador
Source: Centers of Plant Diversity of
the Americas, the Smithsonian Institute
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa8.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in the Lowlands of Manu
National Park (Cocha Cashu Biological Station), Peru
Source: Centers of Plant Diversity of the Americas, the Smithsonian
Institute
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa11.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in the Llanos de Mojos
Region, Bolivia
Source: Centers of Plant Diversity of the Americas, the Smithsonian
Institute
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa24.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in the Madidi-Apolo Region,
Bolivia
Source: Centers of Plant Diversity of the Americas, the Smithsonian
Institute
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa36.htm
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in North-east Honduras and
the Río Platano Biosphere Reserve
Source: Department of Systematic Botany, Smithsonian Institution
http://nmnhwww.si.edu/botany/projects/centres/platano.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in Manu National Park, Peru
Source: UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre Protected Areas
Programme
http://www.unep-wcmc.org/protected_areas/data/wh/manu.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
Occurrence of Swietenia macrophylla in Southwest Amazon moist
forests, Upper Amazon Basin
Source: World Wildlife Fund
http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0166_full.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
Descripción de Swietenia macrophylla del área del
Canal de Panamá
http://ctfs.si.edu/webatlas/spanish/swiema.html
Link verified 2 June 2004
LA
CAOBA, UN RECURSO CODICIADO (Swietenia macrophylla)
Source: SEMARNAP, México
http://www.semarnat.gob.mx/comunicacionsocial/nov02tex02.shtml
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