Psidium
Psidium is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere (Mexico, Central and South America, the West Indies the Galápagos islands). Many of the species bear edible fruits, and for this reason several are cultivated commercially. The most popularly cultivated species is the common guava, Psidium guajava.
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Subfamily: | Myrtoideae |
| Tribe: | Myrteae |
| Genus: | Psidium L. |
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Taxonomy
This genus was described first by Linnaeus in 1753.
Fossils are known from the Paleogene of Patagonia.
- Species
- Psidium acidum - Peru, Ecuador
- Psidium acranthum - Dominican Rep
- Psidium acunae - Cuba
- Psidium acutangulum - from Colombia to Amapá and Bolivia
- Psidium albescens - Jamaica
- Psidium amplexicaule - Puerto Rico, Leeward Is.
- Psidium apiculatum - Bahia
- Psidium appendiculatum - N Venezuela, NE Brazil
- Psidium araucanum - São Paulo, Paraná
- Psidium arboreum - Rio de Janeiro
- Psidium australe - Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
- Psidium bahianum - Bahia
- Psidium balium - Cuba
- Psidium brevifolium - Dominican Rep
- Psidium brownianum - Venezuela, NE Brazil
- Psidium calyptranthoides - Puerto Rico
- Psidium canum - Brazil
- Psidium cattleianum - Brazil, Uruguay; naturalized and invasive in Hawaii
- Psidium cauliflorum - Bahia
- Psidium celastroides - Cuba
- Psidium claraense - Cuba
- Psidium cymosum - Cuba
- Psidium densicomum - Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, NW Brazil, Peru, Colombia
- Psidium dictyophyllum - Hispaniola
- Psidium donianum - Maranhão
- †Psidium dumetorum - Jamaica but extinct
- Psidium eugenii - SE Brazil
- Psidium firmum - Brazil
- Psidium friedrichsthalianum - S Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela
- Psidium fulvum - Peru
- Psidium galapageium - Galápagos
- Psidium ganevii - Bahia
- Psidium giganteum - Minas Gerais, São Paulo
- Psidium glaziovianum - SE Brazil
- Psidium globosum - Uruguay
- Psidium grandifolium - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, NE Argentina
- Psidium guajava - Central + South America, West Indies, Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, Arizona; naturalized in parts of Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and on numerous oceanic islands
- Psidium guineense - Central + South America, Windward Is, Mexico
- Psidium guyanense - N Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana
- Psidium haitiense - Haiti
- Psidium harrisianum - Jamaica
- Psidium × hasslerianum - Paraguay, Central America
- Psidium hotteanum - Massif de la Hotte
- Psidium huanucoense - Huánuco
- Psidium inaequilaterum - SE Brazil
- Psidium itanareense - São Paulo
- Psidium jacquinianum - unknown
- Psidium jakucsianum - Cuba
- Psidium kennedyanum - Brazil, Paraguay, NE Argentina
- Psidium langsdorffii - Minas Gerais
- Psidium laruotteanum - from Costa Rica to Paraguay
- Psidium longipetiolatum - S Brazil
- Psidium lourteigiae - Brazil
- Psidium loustalotii - Cuba
- Psidium maribense - Colombia, Venezuela, N Brazil
- Psidium minutifolium - Cuba
- Psidium misionum - Paraguay, Misiones
- Psidium montanum - Jamaica
- Psidium munizianum - Cuba
- Psidium myrsinites - Brazil
- Psidium myrtoides - Brazil
- Psidium nannophyllum - Dominican Rep
- Psidium navasense - Cuba
- Psidium nummularia - Cuba
- Psidium nutans - Brazil, NE Argentina
- Psidium oblongatum - Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo
- Psidium oblongifolium - SE Brazil
- Psidium oligospermum - Minas Gerais, Paraíba
- Psidium oncocalyx - Bahia
- Psidium orbifolium - Cuba
- Psidium ovale - Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina
- Psidium parvifolium - Cuba
- Psidium pedicellatum - Colombia, Ecuador
- Psidium pigmeum - SE Brazil
- Psidium raimondii - Peru
- Psidium ramboanum - Mato Grosso
- Psidium ratterianum - Brasília
- Psidium refractum - Goiás
- Psidium reptans - Paraná
- Psidium reversum - Sierra Sagua Baracoa in Cuba
- Psidium rhombeum - Bahia
- Psidium riparium - Brazil
- Psidium robustum - Maranhão, Minas Gerais, São Paulo
- Psidium rostratum - Peru
- Psidium rotundatum - Cuba
- Psidium rufum - Brazil
- Psidium rutidocarpum - Peru
- Psidium salutare - Central + South America, West Indies, S Mexico
- Psidium sartorianum - Central + South America, West Indies, Mexico
- Psidium schenckianum - E Brazil
- Psidium scopulorum - Cuba
- Psidium sessilifolium - Dominican Rep
- Psidium sintenisii - Puerto Rico
- Psidium sorocabense - SE Brazil
- Psidium striatulum -Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
- Psidium tenuirame - Cuba
- Psidium trilobum - Massif du Nord in Haiti
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