Other conspecific taxa:

• Hymenaea courbaril var. courbaril (0 accessions)
• Hymenaea courbaril var. stilbocarpa (0 accessions)

Common names:

• amami-gum  (Source: Pl Book) - English
• Brazilian copal  (Source: Pl Book) - English
• South American-locust  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• West Indian-locust  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• caroubier de la Guyane  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• courbaril  (Source: Trop Leg) - French
• Heuschreckenbaum  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• jataí  (Source: Use Pl Brazil) - Portuguese
• jatobá  (Source: Use Pl Brazil) - Portuguese
• jutaí  (Source: Use Pl Brazil) - Portuguese
• farinheira  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• jitaí  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• copal  (Source: CoopAmaz) - Spanish
• curbaril  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• guapinol  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• paquio  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• jatoba  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Bee plants: honey production (fide Pl Res SEAs 18:82. 2000)
• Environmental: agroforestry (fide Pl Res SEAs 18:82. 2000)
• Human food: beverage base (fide Trop Leg)
• Human food: fruit (fide Trop Leg)
• Materials: beads (fide Bot Beads World; as http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_81.html,)
• Materials: gum/resin (fide Pl Res SEAs 18:82. 2000)
• Materials: wood (fide Pl Res SEAs 18:82. 2000)
• Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; Pl Res SEAs 18:82. 2000)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines
• CENTRAL AMERICA: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil [Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Para, Paraiba, Piaui]
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Peru [Loreto, Madre de Dios]


Cultivated (also cult.)

References:

1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
2. Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates (Pl Res SEAs) 18:82.
3. Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. 1993 (L Peru)
4. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
5. Howard, R. Flora of the lesser Antilles. 1974-1989 (F LAnt)
6. Lee, Y.-T. & J. H. Langenheim 1975. Systematics of the genus Hymenaea L. (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, Detarieae) Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 69:79-92.
7. Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997 (Pl Book)
8. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
9. McVaugh, R. Flora Novo-Galiciana. 1983- (F NGalicia)
10. Mors, W. T. & C. T. Rizzini Useful plants of Brazil. 1966 (Use Pl Brazil)
11. National Academy of Sciences Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979 (Trop Leg)
12. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
13. Secretaria Pro-Tempore Tratado de Cooperacion Amazonica. 1993- (CoopAmaz)
14. Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource). (Bot Beads World)
15. Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 1995- (F VenGuay)

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=19489. Accessed 7 junio 2026.