Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Psidium guineense Sw.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Psidium guineense
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
Sw.
Common names
Brazilian Guava, Guinea Guava
Names in other languages (40)Allpa guayaba, Araçazinho, Araçá, Araçá-amarelo, Araçá-branco, Araçá-de-anta, Araçá-de-cacho, Araçá-do-campo, Araçá-do-mato, Araçá-iba, Araçá-morango, Araçá-pedra, Araçá-verdadeiro, Araçá-í, Brasiliaanse koejawel, Chaguindo, Choba, Gouyave de l'Afrique (Haiti), Goyavier de Guinée, Goyavier fraise (Lesser Antilles), Guayaba, Guayaba de guinea (Cuba), Guayaba del monte, Guayaba rumina, Guayabilla, Guayabo Sabanero, Güísaro, Stachelbeerguave, araçá-azedo, araçá-da-praia, araçá-mirim, brasilianguava, goiabinha, goyavier du Brésil, guajava guinejská, guayaba ágria, guayabo cimarrón, tuava kina, गिन्ना अमरूद, బేసిల్ జామ
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Myrtales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Myrtaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Psidium
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
guineense
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Psidium guineense
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 11:32.
Photo of Psidium guineense Sw.
Photo: Thomaz Ricardo Favreto Sinani · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Psidium guineense Sw.
Photo: Pablo Cauã da Silva Toledo · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Psidium guineense Sw.
Photo: Pranav Chandra Bose · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Psidium guineense Sw.
Photo: Diogo Luiz · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Psidium guineense Sw.
Photo: Will Cornwell · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Psidium guineense Sw.
Photo: Fabrício Mil Homens Riella · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 11:32.

Interacciones documentadas

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A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 5 of 5 is a host of × is eaten by × interacts with × has as a parasite × is adjacent to ×

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is a host of 41 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
BOLD:AAA2510 Notodontidae is a host of 10 not compared
Meliola psidii Meliolaceae is a host of 5 not compared
Nystalea silvieduranae Notodontidae is a host of 3 not compared
BOLD:AEA6910 Hesperiidae is a host of 3 not compared
Showing 4 of 41, by number of studies See more of this type

is eaten by 27 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Great Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus lituratus Phyllostomidae is eaten by 2 not compared
Brown Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus concolor Phyllostomidae is eaten by 1 not compared
Nystalea indiana Notodontidae is eaten by 1 no location
Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus planirostris Phyllostomidae is eaten by 1 not compared
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interacts with 3 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Torymus Torymidae interacts with 2 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Cyclophora stricticata Geometridae interacts with 1 not compared
Tetragonisca Apidae interacts with 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Showing 3 of 3, by number of studies

has as a parasite 2 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Prodecatoma Eurytomidae has as a parasite 2 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Torymus Torymidae has as a parasite 2 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

is adjacent to 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Meliola psidii Meliolaceae is adjacent to 1 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.