Fabaceae
Pterocarpus

Pterocarpus rohrii Vahl

First published in Symb. Bot. 2: 79 (1791)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Mexico to S. Tropical America. It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is used as a poison and a medicine.

Distribution

Native to:

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Introduced into:

Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is.

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Balick, M.J., Nee, M.H. & Atha, D.E. (2000). Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Belize with Common Names an Uses: 1-246. New York Botanic Garden Press, New York.
  • Berendsohn, W.G., Gruber, A.K. & Monterrosa Salomón, J. (2009). Nova silva cusatlantica. Árboles nativos e introduciados de El Salvador. Parte 1: Angiospermae - Familias A a L. Englera 29-1: 1-438.
  • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.
  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • D'Arcy, W.G. (1987). Flora of Panama. Checklist and Index.. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 17: 1-328. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. & Souza, V.C. (2016-continuously updated). Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ResultadoDaConsultaNovaConsulta.do.
  • Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánes, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Molino, J.-F., Sabatier, D., Grenand, P., Engel, J., Frame, D., Delprete, P.G., Fleury, M., Odonne, G., Davy, D., Lucas, E.J. & Martin, C.A. (2022). An annotated checklist of the tree species of French Guiana, including vernacular nomenclature. Adansonia, sér. 3, 44: 345-903.
  • Monro, A.K., González, F., Santamaría, D., Chacón, O., Rodríguez, A., Solano, D. Zamora, N. & Correa, M. (2011). A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama. Phytotaxa 322: 1-283.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A. (1946). Flora of Guatemala. Fieldiana Botany New Series 24(5): 1-502. Field Museum of Natural History.
  • Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Publications used to compile the distribution and map:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Berendsohn, W.G., Gruber, A.K. & Monterrosa Salomón, J. (2009). Nova silva cusatlantica. Árboles nativos e introduciados de El Salvador. Parte 1: Angiospermae - Familias A a L. Englera 29-1: 1-438.
  • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.
  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. & Souza, V.C. (2016-continuously updated). Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ResultadoDaConsultaNovaConsulta.do.
  • Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánes, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Monro, A.K., González, F., Santamaría, D., Chacón, O., Rodríguez, A., Solano, D. Zamora, N. & Correa, M. (2011). A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama. Phytotaxa 322: 1-283.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2015). Listado de especies de Productos No Maderables del caribe colombiano. 366 registros, aportados por: Garcia, H. (Contacto del Recurso), López Camacho, R. (Creador del recurso), Espitia Palencia, L. (Proveedor del metadatos). Versión 2.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_bst-caribe_plantae_2015
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • Plants for malaria, plants for fever: Medicinal species in Latin America, a bibliographic survey: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/

International Legume Database and Information Service

  • Lewis, G. P. (1987). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 369 pp Legumes of Bahia
  • Lima, H. C. de (1992). A preliminary checklist of neotropic Dalbergieae
  • Stevens, W. D., et al. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua, 85(2)... Missouri Bot. Gard. Press

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2013 Burchell, W.J. [94282] Brazil K001076524 Yes
Jan 1, 1982 Mori, S.A.; Boom, B.M.; Carvalho, A.M.; Santos, T.S. [13846] Brazil K000207460 Yes
Rodríguez, D.; Pacheco, F.; Erazo, B. [8311] El Salvador K001625633 No
Klitgaard, B. [61] Brazil K:SPC-65149.000 No
Verdi, M.; Baez, C.; Fernandez, E.; Gomes, R. [7618] Brazil K001516434 Yes
de Lima, H. C.; Nascimento, M. T.; Machado, D. N. S.; Viana, H. B. M.; Santos, P. M. [8887] Brazil K001635824 Yes
[Spruce, R.] [256] Suriname K000530326 Unknown Type Material Yes
Klitgaard, B. [67-80] K:SPC-65169.000 No
Jan 1, 2019 Spruce, R. [4471] Peru Pterocarpus rufescens K000111248 Type Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Spruce, R. [4307] Peru Pterocarpus rufescens K000111247 Type Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Spruce, R. [4471] Peru Pterocarpus rufescens K000111246 Type Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Spruce, R. [4471] Peru Pterocarpus rufescens K000111259 Type Yes
Jan 1, 2019 s.coll. [10345] Venezuela Pterocarpus floribundus K000530311 Type Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Smith, H.H. [2030] Colombia Pterocarpus floribundus K000530319 Type Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Steinbach, J. [6733] Bolivia Pterocarpus steinbachianus K000530309 Type Yes
Nee, M. [50163] Bolivia Pterocarpus steinbachianus K000061305 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Hormia, K. [158] Mexico Pterocarpus reticulatus K001041106 Yes
Jan 1, 1969 Cooper, G.P. [573] Panama Pterocarpus reticulatus K000530312 Isotype Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Hayes, S. [597] Panama Pterocarpus hayesii K000530315 Unknown Type Material Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Hayes, S. [597] Panama Pterocarpus hayesii K000530317 Unknown Type Material Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Hayes, S. [597] Panama Pterocarpus hayesii K000530318 Type Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Hayes, S. [597] Panama Pterocarpus hayesii K000530316 Unknown Type Material Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Harley, R.M.; Stannard, B.; Pirani, J.R.; Furlan, A.; Prado, J. [27138] Brazil Pterocarpus villosus K000207446 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Hatschbach, G.; Zelma, F.J. [50066] Brazil Pterocarpus villosus K000207449 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Thomas, W.W.; Carvalho, A.; Amorim, A.; Sant'Ana, S.; Lisboa, S. [9613] Brazil Pterocarpus villosus K000207442 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Araújo, F.S. [s.n.] Brazil Pterocarpus villosus K000207440 Yes
Jan 1, 2013 Andrade, G.S.; Santos, M.M. [07] Brazil Pterocarpus villosus K000207439 Yes
Jan 1, 2013 Krapovickas, A.; Cristóbal, C.L. [37205] Brazil Pterocarpus villosus K000207441 Yes
Jan 1, 2013 Carvalho, A.M.; Mayo, S. [510] Brazil Pterocarpus villosus K000207438 Yes
Jan 1, 2013 Thomas, W.W.; Carvalho, A.; Amorim, A.; Sant'Ana, S.; Lisboa, S. [9613] Brazil Pterocarpus villosus K000207443 Yes
Jan 1, 2013 Lewis, G.P.; Freire, F.M.T.; Lopes, A.S.; Teixeira, G.A.; Alcoforado, F.G. [1348] Brazil Pterocarpus villosus K000207437 Yes
Dec 1, 1989 Harley, R.M.; Taylor, N. [27031] Brazil Pterocarpus villosus K000207447 Yes
Martius, C.F.P.von [s.n.] Brazil Pterocarpus villosus K000207450 Type No
Martius, C.F.P.von [s.n.] Brazil Pterocarpus villosus K000207451 Type No
Jan 1, 2019 Dusén, P. [17311] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076586 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Nascimento, L.M.; Silva, A.G. [351] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076584 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Moraes, J.C. [2018] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K000207457 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Santos, T.S. [1872] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K000207468 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Thomas, W.W.; Carvalho, A.; Amorim, A. [9823] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K000207462 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Santos, T.S. [435] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K000207463 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Lima, H.C., de [3713a] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076582 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Hatschbach, G.G.; Kummrow, R. [57113] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076581 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 s.coll. [106] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K000530324 Unknown Type Material Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Ducke, A. [1047] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076588 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Sellow, F. [s.n.] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K000530325 Unknown Type Material Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Silva, J.M.; Ferreira, L.A.; Abe, L.M. [2842] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076591 Yes
Jan 1, 2019 Klein, R.M.; Bresolin, A. [6877] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076583 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Glaziou, A.F.M. [11895] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076575 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Thomas, W.W.; Amorim, A.; Jardim, J. [9773] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K000207459 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Glaziou, A.F.M. [6868] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076577 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Glaziou, A.F.M. [3824] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076576 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Mori, S.A. [12040] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K000207465 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Mori, S.A. [12040] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K000207464 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Santos, F.S. [739] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K000207466 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Mattos Silva, L.A.; Santos, T.S.; Hage, J.L. [2026] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K000207467 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Ducke, A. [15381] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076574 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Glaziou, A.F.M. [13719] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076579 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Glaziou, A.F.M. [10567] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076578 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Heringer, E.P.; Filgueiras, T.S.; Mendonça, R.C.; Pereira, B.A.S.; Heringer Salles, A.E.; Chagas e Silva F. [5736] Brazil Pterocarpus violaceus K001076580 Yes
Flynn, T. [7305] United States Pterocarpus violaceus K001572484 Yes

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