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Sideroxylon foetidissimum (False Mastic)

Synonyms: Bumelia ausuba; Bumelia foetidissima (homotypic); Mastichodendron foetidissimum (homotypic); Mastichodendron foetidissimum typicum

Wikipedia Abstract

Sideroxylon foetidissimum, commonly known as false mastic or yellow mastic, is a species of flowering plant in the chicle family, Sapotaceae. It is native to Florida in the United States, the Caribbean, and northern Central America.
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Infraspecies

Sideroxylon foetidissimum foetidissimum
Sideroxylon foetidissimum gaumeri

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Specific Gravity [2]  0.9
Structure [3]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Canaveral National Seashore II 9090 Florida, United States
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  
Tuabaquey - Limones Ecological Reserve II 4859 Cuba  

Predators

Ceropsylla sideroxyli (false-mastic psylla)[4]
Philephedra tuberculosa[5]
Phyllocnistis intermediella[6]

Range Map

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Jérôme Chave, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, Hans ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb, 2006. Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2,456 neotropical tree species. Ecological Applications 16(6), 2356 - 2367
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Ceropsylla sideroxyli Riley (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psyllidae), Frank W. Mead, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, May 2006. Latest Revision: April 2015
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0