Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Swietenia macrophylla G.King
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Swietenia macrophylla
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.
G.King
Common names
Big Leaf Mahogany, Big-leaf Mahogany, Brazilian Mahogany, Honduran mahogany, Honduras Mahogany, Large-leaved Mahogany, mahogany, Bigleaf Mahogany
Names in other languages (43)Acajou, Acajou à grandes feuilles, Amerikanischer Mahagoni, Amerikanisches Mahagoni; Caoba de Honduras (Cuba), Araputangá, Caoba, Caoba de Honduras, Caoba de Venezuela, Caoba de hoja grande, Caoba hondurena (Dominican Republic), Caoba hondurena (Puerto Rico), Cedro-i, Cedroaraná, Cedroi, Central American mahogany, Grandfolia svitenio, Honduras mahogany (Virgin Isl.), Mahogani Grands Feuilles, Mahogani du Honduras, Mahogani-grandes feuilles (Lesser Antilles), Mahoni, Mara, Mogno, Mogno-da-amazônia, Mogno-do-Brasil, Swietenia, Acajou à grandes feuilles, aguano, amerikanaitomahonki, araputanga, caóba, cedro-í, hondurasmahogny, mahagónovník veľkolistý, mahogany grandes feuilles, mahoniowiec wielkolistny, mogno-brasileiro, tsutsul, Águano, มะฮอกกานีใบใหญ่, គ្រាប់បែក, オオバマホガニー, 大叶桃花心木, 大葉桃花心木
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).
Sapindales
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).
Meliaceae
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.
Swietenia
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.
macrophylla
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Swietenia macrophylla
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.
Endangered (EN)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-13 11:17.
Photo of Swietenia macrophylla G.King
Photo: 葉子 · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Swietenia macrophylla G.King
Photo: 古淑玲 · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Swietenia macrophylla G.King
Photo: Jerome Ko · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Swietenia macrophylla G.King
Photo: S.MORE · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Swietenia macrophylla G.King
Photo: Matteo Bellucci · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Swietenia macrophylla G.King
Photo: 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-13 11:17.

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: 8 of 8 is a host of × is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of × has as a host × interacts with (this species is the record's destination) × interacts with (this species is the record's origin) × has as a parasite × is eaten by × is a symbiont of ×

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is a host of 66 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:AAA8740 Notodontidae is a host of 16 not compared
Sericochroa felderi Notodontidae is a host of 5 not compared
Lasiodiplodia theobromae Botryosphaeriaceae is a host of 4 no location
BOLD:AAA5499 Pyralidae is a host of 4 not compared
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is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 16 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
Acaulospora elegans Acaulosporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Gigaspora decipiens Gigasporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Glomus sp. Glomeraceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source did not resolve a species — the name carries an open-nomenclature qualifier.
Sclerocystis sinuosa is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
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has as a host 7 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
Lasiodiplodia theobromae Botryosphaeriaceae has as a host 1 no location
hårgömmingar Chaetomium Chaetomiaceae has as a host 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Pestalotia Amphisphaeriaceae has as a host 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
narrekjedemuggsopper Phoma Didymellaceae has as a host 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
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interacts with 7 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
Wasp Trichospilus diatraeae Eulophidae interacts with 2 no location
Trichogrammatoidea nana Trichogrammatidae interacts with 1 no location
Dalbergia retusa Fabaceae interacts with 1 no location
Cirrospilus floridensis Eulophidae interacts with 1 no location
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interacts with 5 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
Dalbergia retusa Fabaceae interacts with 1 no location
Genipap Genipa americana Rubiaceae interacts with 1 no location
Hypsipyla interacts with 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Jaraguagrass Hyparrhenia rufa Poaceae interacts with 1 no location
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has as a parasite 5 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Wasp Trichospilus diatraeae Eulophidae has as a parasite 3 no location
Brachymeria subconica Chalcididae has as a parasite 1 no location
Notanisomorphella borborica Eulophidae has as a parasite 1 no location
Trichogrammatoidea nana Trichogrammatidae has as a parasite 1 no location
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is eaten by 3 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Jujube lappet Streblote siva Lasiocampidae is eaten by 1 no location
Odontotermes formosanus Termitidae is eaten by 1 not compared
Gonodontis clelia Geometridae is eaten by 1 no location
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is a symbiont of 1 organism

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
Fungi Including Lichens Fungi is a symbiont of 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at kingdom level.
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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.

Not grouped under a navigation concept

What the source states Claim type Context Source Actions
Árbol nativo candidato de paisaje Recommendation of a guideRecommended coffee · Veracruz, México Biolítica · compilación de café de CIE-10 sha256:e376ce4d636a