Psidium

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Myrtales

Familia: Myrtaceae
Subfamilia: Myrtoideae
Tribus: Myrteae
Subtribus: Pimentinae
Genus: Psidium
Sectiones: P. sect. Apertiflora – P. sect. Calyptropsidium – P. sect. Psidium
Species: P. acre – P. acutangulum – P. albidum – P. angulatum – P. australe – P. brownianum – P. cattleianum – P. celastroides – P. cinereum – P. coriaceum – P. cuneatum – P. cymosum – P. densicomum – P. formosum – P. friedrichsthalianum – P. grandifolium – P. guajava – P. incanum – P. laruotteanum – P. laurifolium – P. longipes – P. luridum – P. minutifolium – P. missionum – P. montanum – P. nutans – P. parvifolium – P. persicifolium – P. rotundatum – P. salutare – P. sartorianum – P. scopulorum – P. sellowianum – P. sorocabense – P. suffruticosum – P. tomasianum

Name

Psidium L. (1753)

Type species: Psidium guajava L.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Cuiavus Trew, Pl. Select. Pinx. Ehret 4: 12 (1754), nom. illeg.
Guaiava Adans., Fam. 2: 88, 563 ('Guiava'). 1763.
Guajava Mill., Gard. Dict. Abr., ed. 4. (textus s.n.). 1754, nom. illeg.
Calyptropsidium O.Berg, Linnaea 27: 347, 349. 1856.
Mitropsidium Burret, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 486. 1941.
Myrtus subg. Corynemyrtos Kiaersk., Enum. Myrt. Brasil. 39: 18. 1893.
Corynemyrtus (Kiaersk.) Mattos, Loefgrenia 10: 1963.

References

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 470.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Psidium in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Jan. 20. Reference page.

Vernacular names
беларуская: Псідыум
Deutsch: Guave
English: Guava
español: Guayaba
suomi: Guavat
français: Goyavier
português: Goiaba
svenska: Guavasläktet

Psidium is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere (Mexico, Central and South America, the West Indies, Galápagos, and the southern United States).[3]
Taxonomy

This genus was described first by Linnaeus in 1753.[4][5] Many of the species bear edible fruits, and for this reason several are cultivated commercially.[6] The most popularly cultivated species is the common guava, Psidium guajava.

Species[7]

Psidium acidum - Peru, Ecuador
Psidium acranthum - Dominican Rep
Psidium acunae - Cuba
Psidium acutangulum - from Colombia to Amapá and Bolivia
Psidium albescens - Jamaica
Psidium amplexicaule - Puerto Rico, Leeward Is.
Psidium apiculatum - Bahia
Psidium appendiculatum - N Venezuela, NE Brazil
Psidium araucanum - São Paulo, Paraná
Psidium arboreum - Rio de Janeiro
Psidium australe - Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
Psidium bahianum - Bahia
Psidium balium - Cuba
Psidium brevifolium - Dominican Rep
Psidium brownianum - Venezuela, NE Brazil
Psidium calyptranthoides - Puerto Rico
Psidium canum - Brazil
Psidium cattleianum - Brazil, Uruguay; naturalized and invasive in Hawaii
Psidium cauliflorum - Bahia
Psidium celastroides - Cuba
Psidium claraense - Cuba
Psidium cymosum - Cuba
Psidium densicomum - Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, NW Brazil, Peru, Colombia
Psidium dictyophyllum - Hispaniola
Psidium donianum - Maranhão
†Psidium dumetorum - Jamaica but extinct
Psidium eugenii - SE Brazil
Psidium firmum - Brazil
Psidium friedrichsthalianum - S Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela
Psidium fulvum - Peru
Psidium galapageium - Galápagos
Psidium ganevii - Bahia
Psidium giganteum - Minas Gerais, São Paulo
Psidium glaziovianum - SE Brazil
Psidium globosum - Uruguay
Psidium grandifolium - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, NE Argentina
Psidium guajava - Central + South America, West Indies, Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, Arizona;[8] naturalized in parts of Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and on numerous oceanic islands
Psidium guineense - Central + South America, Windward Is, Mexico
Psidium guyanense - N Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana
Psidium haitiense - Haiti
Psidium harrisianum - Jamaica
Psidium × hasslerianum - Paraguay, Central America
Psidium hotteanum - Massif de la Hotte
Psidium huanucoense - Huánuco
Psidium inaequilaterum - SE Brazil
Psidium itanareense - São Paulo
Psidium jacquinianum - unknown
Psidium jakucsianum - Cuba
Psidium kennedyanum - Brazil, Paraguay, NE Argentina
Psidium langsdorffii - Minas Gerais
Psidium laruotteanum - from Costa Rica to Paraguay
Psidium longipetiolatum - S Brazil
Psidium lourteigiae - Brazil
Psidium loustalotii - Cuba
Psidium maribense - Colombia, Venezuela, N Brazil
Psidium minutifolium - Cuba
Psidium misionum - Paraguay, Misiones
Psidium montanum - Jamaica
Psidium munizianum - Cuba
Psidium myrsinites - Brazil
Psidium myrtoides - Brazil
Psidium nannophyllum - Dominican Rep
Psidium navasense - Cuba
Psidium nummularia - Cuba
Psidium nutans - Brazil, NE Argentina
Psidium oblongatum - Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo
Psidium oblongifolium - SE Brazil
Psidium oligospermum - Minas Gerais, Paraíba
Psidium oncocalyx - Bahia
Psidium orbifolium - Cuba
Psidium ovale - Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina
Psidium parvifolium - Cuba
Psidium pedicellatum - Colombia, Ecuador
Psidium pigmeum - SE Brazil
Psidium raimondii - Peru
Psidium ramboanum - Mato Grosso
Psidium ratterianum - Brasília
Psidium refractum - Goiás
Psidium reptans - Paraná
Psidium reversum - Sierra Sagua Baracoa in Cuba
Psidium rhombeum - Bahia
Psidium riparium - Brazil
Psidium robustum - Maranhão, Minas Gerais, São Paulo
Psidium rostratum - Peru
Psidium rotundatum - Cuba
Psidium rufum - Brazil
Psidium rutidocarpum - Peru
Psidium salutare - Central + South America, West Indies, S Mexico
Psidium sartorianum - Central + South America, West Indies, Mexico
Psidium schenckianum - E Brazil
Psidium scopulorum - Cuba
Psidium sessilifolium - Dominican Rep
Psidium sintenisii - Puerto Rico
Psidium sorocabense - SE Brazil
Psidium striatulum -Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
Psidium tenuirame - Cuba
Psidium trilobum - Massif du Nord in Haiti

References

"Genus: Psidium L." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2009-01-27. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
"World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2009. Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): i–xvi, 1–855. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.
Landrum, L. R. & M. L. Kawasaki. 1997. The genera of Myrtaceae in Brazil: an illustrated synoptic treatment and identification keys. Brittonia 49(4): 508–536.
Sánchez-Vindas, P. E. 1989. Flora de Nicaragua: Myrtaceae. Brenesia 31: 53–73.
Sánchez-Vindas, P. E. 2001. Calycolpus, Eugenia, Myrcia, Myrcianthes, Myrciaria, Pimenta, Plinia, Psidium, Syzygium, Ugni. En: Stevens, W.D., C. Ulloa, A. Pool & O.M. Montiel (eds.), Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85(2): 1566, 1570–1574, 1575–1580.
Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps, genus Psidium

Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 470 in Latin
Tropicos, Psidium L.
Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull, ed. (2008). The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts (illustrated ed.). CABI. ISBN 9780851996387.
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Biota of North America 2013 county distribution map, Psidium guajava