Naming
Big-leaf mahogany, Swietenia macrophylla King, is one of three Swietenias which are the American or true mahoganies. The American mahoganies are recognized as different species principally on the basis of their allopatric or non-overlapping distributions, with the Caribbean or Cuban mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacquin) restricted to the greater Antilles and southern Florida, the Mexican or Pacific mahogany (Swietenia humilis Zuccarini) distributed along the Central American Pacific coast from southern Mexico to Costa Rica, and big-leaf mahogany occurring much more widely from Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula down the Central American Atlantic coast into South America as far south as Bolivia. First named Cedrelus mahagoni by Linnaeus, big-leaf mahogany was thought to be the same species as Caribbean mahogany until George King decided it was a separate species in 1886, hence the author name ‘King’.
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