Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Swietenia mahagoni
caoba de las Indias occidentales, Cuban mahogany tree, Dominican mahogany, Jamaican mahogany tree
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Sapindales
Family
Meliaceae
Genus
Swietenia
Species
mahagoni
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cedrela mahagoni L.
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 2004
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Human dependent
Invasive status: Unlikely to become invasive
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
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- Pennington, T.D. Styles, B.T. & Taylor, D.A. (1981) Meliaceae. Flora del Neotropico 28: 1–470.
- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
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"Galapagos Species Database, Swietenia mahagoni", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1928. Accessed 24 June 2025.