Swietenia mahagoni
(L.) Jacq. · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Swietenia mahagoni's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation11 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 227 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI10 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics10 specimens↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Swietenia mahagoni, commonly known as American mahogany, Cuban mahogany, small-leaved mahogany, and West Indian mahogany, is a species of Swietenia native to South Florida in the United States and islands in the Caribbean including the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola. It is the species from which the original mahogany wood was produced. Mahogany is grown as a plantation tree and sold in timber markets in Kerala, India. Swietenia mahagoni is listed as "Threatened" in the Preservation of Native Flora of Florida Act. It is the national tree of the Dominican Republic.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology6
Life cycle & reproduction26
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment27
Physiology & chemistry24
Uses & economy16
Other traits6
Compounds documented for Swietenia mahagoni across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile4 classes
Documented compounds152 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1R,2R,4S,7R,8S,11R,12S,17R)-7-(furan-3-yl)-1,8,12,16,16-pentamethyl-3,6-dioxapentacyclo[9.8.0.02,4.02,8.012,17]nonadec-13-ene-5,15,19-trione | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,2R,4S,7R,8S,11R,12S,13S,15R,17S,19R)-7-(furan-3-yl)-13,15,19-trihydroxy-1,8,12,16,16-pentamethyl-3,6-dioxapentacyclo[9.8.0.02,4.02,8.012,17]nonadecan-5-one | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,2R,4S,7S,8S,11R,12R,17R)-7-(furan-3-yl)-1,8,12,16,16-pentamethyl-3,6-dioxapentacyclo[9.8.0.02,4.02,8.012,17]nonadec-13-ene-5,15,19-trione | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,2R,4S,7S,8S,11R,12S,13S,15R,17S,19R)-7-(furan-3-yl)-13,15,19-trihydroxy-1,8,12,16,16-pentamethyl-3,6-dioxapentacyclo[9.8.0.02,4.02,8.012,17]nonadecan-5-one | present | LOTUS | |
| (1S,3R,6S,8R,11S,12S,14S,15R,16R)-7,7,12,16-tetramethyl-15-[(2R)-6-methyl-5-methylideneheptan-2-yl]pentacyclo[9.7.0.01,3.03,8.012,16]octadecane-6,14-diol | present | LOTUS | |
| (5R,9R,10R,13S,14S,17S)-17-[(2R,3S,5R)-5-[(2S)-3,3-dimethyloxiran-2-yl]-2-hydroxyoxolan-3-yl]-4,4,10,13,14-pentamethyl-1,2,5,6,9,11,12,15,16,17-decahydrocyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-one | present | LOTUS | |
| 1-Deacetylkhivorin | present | LOTUS | |
| 2-Hydroxyfissinolide | present | LOTUS | |
| 2-Hydroxyswietenine | present | LOTUS | |
| 3,7-Dideacetylkhivorin | present | LOTUS |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Swietenia mahagoni has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Swietenia mahagoni carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 482×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 · CCDB · book-indian_vol1
2n 541×CCDB · book-indian_vol1
2n 561×CCDB · book-indian_vol1
n 271×CCDB · book-ipcn73-74
n 281×CCDB · book-ipcn73-74
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale
Record type2 227 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions33 of 47 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Bronx, US | 38 |
| Miami, US | 37 |
| Saint Louis, US | 23 |
| Tampa, US | 11 |
| Wlocation not on record | 10 |
| Honolulu, US | 9 |
| Kew, GB | 9 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 8 |
| Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record | 7 |
| Baroda, IN | 7 |
| HAWlocation not on record | 6 |
| Taipei, TW | 4 |
| TAFORI-LSRClocation not on record | 3 |
| Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO | 2 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 2 |
| Tempe, US | 2 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 2 |
| Beijing, CN | 2 |
| Durango, MX | 2 |
| Bando, JP | 2 |
| Gujarat Biodiversity Gene Banklocation not on record | 2 |
| Pondicherry, IN | 2 |
| Xiamen, CN | 2 |
| Mexico City, MX | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk, UA | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| Ojo, NG | 1 |
| Millersville, US | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
| Instituto de Investigaciones Botánicas y Zoológicas - Prof. Rafael M. Moscoso, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingolocation not on record | 1 |
| Guilin, CN | 1 |
| JBRJlocation not on record | 1 |
| Long Beach, US | 1 |
| UNESP-RClocation not on record | 1 |
| Durban, ZA | 1 |
| Guatemala City, GT | 1 |
| Antiguo Cuscatlán, SV | 1 |
| Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record | 1 |
| Brasília, BR | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| Austin, US | 1 |
| University of Hamburglocation not on record | 1 |
| EL PASO, US | 1 |
| Berlin, DE | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Swietenia mahagoni was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.