Allspice (Pimenta dioica)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Pimenta dioica (L.) Merr.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Pimenta dioica
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.) Merr.
Common names: Allspice, Jamaica Pepper, Jamaica-pepper, Myrtle Pepper, Newspice, Pimenta, Turkish Yenibahar, clover-pepper
Names in other languages (29)
Hazo mfoka, Jamaica, Jamaican pepper, Korzennik lekarski, Mri wa dite, Nelkenpfeffer, Nelkenpfeffer (DE); Pimento (ES); Allspice (EN), Pepe della Giamaica, Piment, Pimenta dioïque, Piment de la Jamaïque, Piment des Anglais, Poivre de la Jamaïque, Toute-épice, Pimenta dioïque, Quatre-épices, Piment de la Jamaïque, Piment des Anglais, Poivre de la Jamaïque, Toute-épice, Pimentbaum, Pimento, Pimienta gorda, Sipaisi, allehånde, kryddpeppar, malaqueta, maustepippuri, pimenta-da-jamaica, pimenta-de-jamaica, pimentovník lekársky, pimentovník pravý, yenibahar, Ангельскае зелле, Бахар, Пимента двудомная, オールスパイス, 多香果
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.: Pimenta
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.: dioica
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Pimenta dioica
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 2026-10-12 18:06.

Photo of Pimenta dioica (L.) Merr. — Photo: Damien Wallace · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-12 18:06.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

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

Types shown: 3 of 3 is a host of × is eaten by × is adjacent to ×

Blocks that do not sit under a navigation concept heading keep the source's own term: no navigation concept has been assigned to them yet.

is a host of 26 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
Myrtle Rust Austropuccinia psidii Sphaerophragmiaceae	is a host of	33	not compared
33 sources · 33 records https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=788129 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Mandeville · March 3, 1935 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=788130 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Montego Bay near · July 8, 1965 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=788131 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Stewart Town , Trelawny alt. 1482 ft., vicinity of Westwood high School · March 10, 1960 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=788132 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Intercepted Miami Florida #48012 · Sept. 2, 1967 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=788133 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Moneague Plantations above · April 2, 1945 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=788134 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Intercepted at Jfkia 1175 · Jan. 10, 1970 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=788576 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Intercepted Miami #18769 · Oct. 24, 1961 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=788583 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Intercepted Miami Florida #8070 · Feb. 3, 1959 · Preserved specimen And 25 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Meliola amomicola Meliolaceae	is a host of	3	not compared
3 sources · 3 records https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=11784918 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Hope · April 20, 1961 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1617887 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Hope, St. Andrew · April 20, 1961 · Preserved specimen Urtiaga, R.. 1986. Indice de enfermedades en plantas de Venezuela y Cuba. Impresos en Impresos Nuevo Siglo. S.R.L., Barquisimeto, Venezuela :202 Published in globalbioticinteractions/usda-fungus-host Context: Cuba · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Calonectria morganii Nectriaceae	is a host of	2	no location
2 sources · 2 records Alfieri Jr., S.A., Langdon, K.R., Wehlburg, C., and Kimbrough, J.W.. 1984. Index of Plant Diseases in Florida (Revised). Florida Dept. Agric. and Consumer Serv., Div. Plant Ind. Bull. 11:1-389 Published in globalbioticinteractions/usda-fungus-host Context: United States · no date published Crous, P.W.. 2002. Taxonomy and pathology of %Cylindrocladium% (%Calonectria%) and allied genera. American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, Minnesota :278 Published in globalbioticinteractions/usda-fungus-host Context: United States · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Rapid ohia death/ohia wilt Ceratocystis fimbriata Ceratocystidaceae	is a host of	2	no location
2 sources · 2 records Larter, L.N.H., and Martyn, E.B.. 1943. A preliminary list of plant diseases in Jamaica. Mycol. Pap. 8:1-16 Published in globalbioticinteractions/usda-fungus-host Context: Jamaica · no date published Spaulding, P.. 1961. Foreign Diseases of Forest Trees of the World. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 197:1-361 Published in globalbioticinteractions/usda-fungus-host Context: Jamaica · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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is eaten by 2 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Potato Tuber Moth Phthorimaea operculella Gelechiidae	is eaten by	2	no location
2 sources · 2 records Bucher, G.E. 1963. Nonsporulating bacterial pathogens, pp. 117-149 in Steinhaus, E.A. Insect Pathology an Advanced Treatise, Vol. 2. Academic Press, New York. 689 pp. Published in millerse/Ecological-Database-of-the-World-s-Insect-Pathogens Context: no place published · no date published Edward Baker; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker; Steen Dupont; Vincent Smith; John S Noyes (2017). NHM Interactions Bank. https://doi.org/10.5519/0060767. Accessed at <https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/82e807f0-6273-4f19-be0a-7f7558442a25/resource/f84ad9f1-bd0c-4811… Published in globalbioticinteractions/natural-history-museum-london-interactions-bank Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Celery Leaftier Moth Udea rubigalis Crambidae	is eaten by	1	no location
1 source · 1 record Edward Baker; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker; Steen Dupont; Vincent Smith; John S Noyes (2017). NHM Interactions Bank. https://doi.org/10.5519/0060767. Accessed at <https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/82e807f0-6273-4f19-be0a-7f7558442a25/resource/f84ad9f1-bd0c-4811… Published in globalbioticinteractions/natural-history-museum-london-interactions-bank Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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
Acuminate Scale Kilifia acuminata Coccidae	is adjacent to	1	no location
1 source · 1 record https://ecdysis.org/collections/individual/index.php?occid=4955752 Published in globalbioticinteractions/ecdysis Context: Rarotonga, Turoa · Oct. 10, 1975 · Preserved specimen A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

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.