Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Spondias purpurea L.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Spondias purpurea
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
Jamaica Plum, Purple Mombin, Red Plum, Spanish-plum, hog-plum, red mombin, siniguela
Names in other languages (38)Cajazeiro, Cajá-da-bahia, Cajá-redondo, Ciruela, Hog Plum, Jocote, Macaprein, Prunier d'Espagne, Purple Plum, Rode mombinpruim, Sariguelas, Seriguela, Sinigwelas, Siriguela, Siwèl, Spanish Plum, cireula mexicana, ciriguela, cirigüela, cirig�ela, ciruela de huesito, ciruela española, ciruelo, cuaripa, imbu, imbuzeiro, mombin rouge, ovo, prune chili, prune d'Espagne, rote Mombinpflaume, röd mombinspondias, rød mombin, serigüela, serig�ela, slivkovník purpurový, Момбин пурпурный, 紫槟榔青
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).
Anacardiaceae
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.
Spondias
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.
purpurea
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Spondias purpurea
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 07:03.
Photo of Spondias purpurea L.
Photo: nasua · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Spondias purpurea L.
Photo: Xavier Alejandro Caratachea Navarro · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Spondias purpurea L.
Photo: Ricardo Betancourt Sánchez · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Spondias purpurea L.
Photo: Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Spondias purpurea L.
Photo: Gustavo ZaRo · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Spondias purpurea L.
Photo: River Ahlquist · 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 07:03.

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: 9 of 9 is a host of × is eaten by × has as a vector × is adjacent to × interacts with × has its flowers visited by × has as a parasite × is a symbiont of × is visited by ×

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is a host of 33 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
Elsinoe spondiadis Elsinoaceae is a host of 14 not compared
Chaetothyrina tenuissima Micropeltidaceae is a host of 8 not compared
Lasiodiplodia pontae is a host of 6 no location
Pseudocercospora mombin Mycosphaerellaceae is a host of 5 not compared
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is eaten by 17 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
White-fronted Amazon Amazona albifrons Psittacidae is eaten by 2 not compared
Red-bellied Squirrel Sciurus aureogaster Sciuridae is eaten by 2 not compared
Summer Tanager Piranga rubra Cardinalidae is eaten by 2 not compared
Gypona arunda Cicadellidae is eaten by 1 no location
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has as a vector 4 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
Jamaica Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus jamaicensis Phyllostomidae has as a vector 3 no location
Pale Spear-Nosed Bat Phyllostomus discolor has as a vector 2 no location
Seba's Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata Phyllostomidae has as a vector 1 not compared
Bat Chiroptera has as a vector 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at order level.
Showing 4 of 4, by number of studies

is adjacent to 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
Pyxine Lichens Pyxine Caliciaceae is adjacent to 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Graphis Graphidaceae is adjacent to 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Collema Collemataceae is adjacent to 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Showing 3 of 3, by number of studies

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
Mimosa scale Melanaspis mimosae Diaspididae interacts with 1 not compared
Red-masked Parakeet Psittacara erythrogenys Psittacidae interacts with 1 not compared
Kapala furcata Eucharitidae interacts with 1 no location
Showing 3 of 3, by number of studies

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 2 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, 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
Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata Parulidae has its flowers visited by 1 not compared
Golden-crowned Emerald Cynanthus auriceps Trochilidae has its flowers visited by 1 not compared
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

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
Kapala furcata Eucharitidae has as a parasite 1 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

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 2 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at kingdom level.
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

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
Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis Thraupidae is visited by 1 not compared
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

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