Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Genipa americana L.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Genipa americana
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.
L.
Common names
Genipap, Genipap Tree, Jagua, Marmalade, Marmalade box, genip, genip tree, marmalade-box
Names in other languages (36)Airo toa, Bi, Bi-nané, Caporán, Genipa, Genipapa, Genipapo, Guaitil, Guatil, Génipayer, Huëe, Jagua de comar, Jagua dulce, Janapabeiro, Janipaba, Janipapeiro, Janipapo, Jenipapeiro, Jenipapinho, Jenipapo, Jenipá, Jénipa, Mali, Shiño, Sua, Teta de vieja, Wituk, caruto, confiture de singe, genipa americká, génipa, huito, irayol, tapuhupa, yagua, 美洲格尼帕樹
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).
Gentianales
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).
Rubiaceae
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.
Genipa
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.
americana
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Genipa americana
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 08:30.
Photo of Genipa americana L.
Photo: Samuel Peláez Vélez · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Genipa americana L.
Photo: Silvia Ten · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Genipa americana L.
Photo: Siddarth Machado · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Genipa americana L.
Photo: Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Genipa americana L.
Photo: reagan peschke · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Genipa americana L.
Photo: Kai Murphy · 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 08:30.

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: 10 of 10 is eaten by × is a host of × interacts with × is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of × is a symbiont of × is pollinated by × is adjacent to × has as a parasite × is preyed upon by × is visited by ×

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is eaten by 61 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Toco Toucan Ramphastos toco Ramphastidae is eaten by 2 not compared
Lowland Tapir Tapirus terrestris Tapiridae is eaten by 2 not compared
Chaco Chachalaca Ortalis canicollis Cracidae is eaten by 2 not compared
Feral Pig Sus scrofa Suidae is eaten by 2 not compared
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is a host of 45 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:AAB9116 Crambidae is a host of 44 not compared
Elsinoe genipae Elsinoaceae is a host of 13 not compared
Asterina genipae Asterinaceae is a host of 7 not compared
Scolecostigmina genipae is a host of 4 not compared
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interacts with 28 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
Epicharis Apidae interacts with 97 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Centris Bees Centris Apidae interacts with 89 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Centris flavifrons Apidae interacts with 32 no location
Euglossa tridentata Apidae interacts with 15 no location
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is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 19 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
Rhizophagus clarus Glomeraceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Racocetra fulgida Gigasporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Gigaspora margarita Gigasporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Dentiscutata erythropus Gigasporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
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is a symbiont of 16 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
Lactarius imperceptus Russulaceae is a symbiont of 1 not compared
Mycoleptodiscus sp. Muyocopronaceae is a symbiont of 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source did not resolve a species — the name carries an open-nomenclature qualifier.
Herpotrichiellaceae sp. Herpotrichiellaceae is a symbiont of 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source did not resolve a species — the name carries an open-nomenclature qualifier.
Xylobotryum andinum is a symbiont of 1 not compared
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Pollination

is pollinated by 4 organisms

This term declares that the organism benefits this species. «Visits the flowers of» is a different term and a different block: a visitor is not a pollinator, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Black-throated Mango Anthracothorax nigricollis Trochilidae is pollinated by 1 not compared
White-necked Jacobin Florisuga mellivora Trochilidae is pollinated by 1 not compared
Glittering-throated Emerald Amazilia fimbriata is pollinated by 1 not compared
Golden-tailed Sapphire Chrysuronia oenone Trochilidae is pollinated by 1 not compared
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is adjacent to 2 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
Daedalea aethalodes Fomitopsidaceae is adjacent to 1 not compared
Elsinoe genipae Elsinoaceae is adjacent to 1 no location
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has as a parasite 1 organism

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Prodecatoma moreirai Eurytomidae has as a parasite 1 no location
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is preyed upon by 1 organism

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Paraná Pacu Piaractus mesopotamicus Serrasalmidae is preyed upon by 1 no location
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is visited by 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
Frieseomelitta varia Apidae is visited by 1 no location
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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.