Synonyms:

• (=) Swietenia candollei Pittier

Common names:

• Honduran mahogany  (Source: F Neotrop) - English
• mahogany  (Source: F Ceylon) - English
• aguano  (Source: F Neotrop) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• araputanga  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• caóba  (Source: Use Pl Brazil) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• cedro-í  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• mogno  (Source: F Neotrop) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• mogno-brasileiro  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• caoba  (Source: F Neotrop) - Spanish
• mara  (Source: F Neotrop) - Spanish (Bolivia)
• aguano  (Source: F Neotrop) - Spanish (Peru)
• hondurasmahogny  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• CITES Appendix II: (populations of the neotropics)
• Environmental: revegetator (fide Lamb & Lawrence 1993)
• Materials: beads (fide Bot Beads World; as http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_30.html,)
• Materials: wood (fide F Neotrop 28:400. 1981; F Ceylon; Invasive Pl Spec)
• Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Weed: (fide Invasive Pl Spec)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz]

Southern America

• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, [Guanacaste] Guatemala, [Chimaltenango, Izabal, Peten] Honduras, [Colon, Olancho] Nicaragua, [Zelaya] Panama [Darien, Panama]
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Venezuela [Zulia, Aragua, Barinas]
• BRAZIL: Brazil [Acre (n. & w.), Para]
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, [La Paz, Santa Cruz] Colombia, [Bolivar] Peru [Huanuco, Loreto, San Martin]


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized

Asia-Tropical

• MALESIA: Singapore

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]

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. CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource). (CITES Appendices)
3. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980- (F Ceylon)
4. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
5. Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource). (Pacif I Ecosyst Risk)
6. Lamb, D. & P. Lawrence 1993. Mixed species plantation using high value rainforest trees in Australia (Restor Trop Forest) 102.
7. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
8. Mors, W. T. & C. T. Rizzini Useful plants of Brazil. 1966 (Use Pl Brazil)
9. Pennington, T. D. 1981. Meliaceae Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 28:395.
10. Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource). (Bot Beads World)
11. Weber, E. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. 2003 (Invasive Pl Spec)

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=35955. Accessed 7 junio 2026.