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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae}}
{{For|the thoroughbred racehorse|Psidium (horse)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| oldest_fossil = Paleogene
| image = Starr 020803-0117 Psidium guajava.jpg
| image_caption = Guava (''[[Psidium guajava]]'')
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Psidium
| authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?10034 |title=Genus: ''Psidium'' L. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture
|date=2009-01-27 |access-date=2010-03-03}}</ref>
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = 78; see text
|subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30004423-2 ''Psidium'' L.] ''[[Plants of the World Online]]''. Retrieved 25 June 2024.</ref>
| synonyms =
* ''Calyptropsidium'' O.Berg
* ''Corynemyrtus'' (Kiaersk.) Mattos
* ''Cuiavus'' Trew
* ''Episyzygium'' Suess. & A.Ludw.
* ''Guajava'' Mill.
* ''Guayaba'' Noronha
* ''Mitranthes'' O.Berg
* ''Mitropsidium'' Burret
| synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/>
}}

'''''Psidium''''' is a [[genus]] of [[tree]]s and [[shrub]]s in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Myrtaceae]]. It is native to warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere ([[Mexico]], [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]], the [[West Indies]], and the [[Galápagos]] islands).<ref>
*[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30004423-2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
*Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
*Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2009. Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): i–xvi, 1–855. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.
*Landrum, L. R. & M. L. Kawasaki. 1997. The genera of Myrtaceae in Brazil: an illustrated synoptic treatment and identification keys. Brittonia 49(4): 508–536.
*Sánchez-Vindas, P. E. 1989. Flora de Nicaragua: Myrtaceae. Brenesia 31: 53–73.
*Sánchez-Vindas, P. E. 2001. ''Calycolpus, Eugenia, Myrcia, Myrcianthes, Myrciaria, Pimenta, Plinia, Psidium, Syzygium, Ugni.'' En: Stevens, W.D., C. Ulloa, A. Pool & O.M. Montiel (eds.), Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85(2): 1566, 1570–1574, 1575–1580.
*[http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Psidium Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps, genus ''Psidium'']</ref> Many of the species bear edible fruits, and for this reason several are cultivated commercially.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts |editor= Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull |edition= illustrated |publisher= CABI |year= 2008 |isbn= 9780851996387}}</ref> The most popularly cultivated species is the common [[guava]], ''[[Psidium guajava]].''

==Taxonomy==
[[File:Leaves of Psidium.jpg|thumb|new leaves of Psidium in [[West Bengal]], India.]]
This genus was described first by Linnaeus in 1753.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358489#page/482/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 470] in Latin</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40018772 Tropicos, ''Psidium'' L.]</ref>

Fossils are known from the [[Paleogene]] of Patagonia.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Panti |first=Carolina |date=2016-05-18 |title=Myrtaceae fossil leaves from the Río Turbio Formation (Middle Eocene), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2014.976635 |journal=Historical Biology |language=en |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=459–469 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2014.976635 |bibcode=2016HBio...28..459P |s2cid=84988707 |issn=0891-2963|hdl=11336/19131 |hdl-access=free |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Species==
78 species are accepted.<ref name = powo/>
{{Columns-list|colwidth=30em|
# ''[[Psidium acidum]]'' {{small|(Mart. ex DC.) Landrum}} – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and northern Brazil
# ''[[Psidium acranthum]]'' {{small|Urb.}} – Hispaniola
# ''[[Psidium acutangulum]]'' {{small|DC.}} – Colombia and Venezuela to Bolivia and west-central Brazil
# ''[[Psidium albescens]]'' {{small|Urb.}} – Jamaica
# ''[[Psidium amplexicaule]]'' {{small|Pers.}} – Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Leeward Is., and northeastern Brazil
# ''[[Psidium appendiculatum]]'' {{small|Kiaersk.}} – northern Venezuela and eastern Brazil
# ''[[Psidium araucanum]]'' {{small|Soares-Silva & Proença}} – [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]], [[Paraná (state)|Paraná]]
# ''[[Psidium australe]]'' {{small|Cambess.}} – central Colombia to Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina (Misiones)
# ''[[Psidium bahianum]]'' {{small|Landrum & Funch}} – [[Bahia]]
# ''[[Psidium brevipedunculatum]]'' {{small|Tuler & Landrum}} – [[Bahia]]
# ''[[Psidium brownianum]]'' {{small|Mart. ex DC.}} – northeast Brazil
# ''[[Psidium cattleyanum]]'' {{small|Sabine}} – eastern and southern Brazil and Uruguay; naturalized and invasive in Hawaii
# ''[[Psidium cauliflorum]]'' {{small|Landrum & Sobral}} – Bahia
# ''[[Psidium cupreum]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro
# ''[[Psidium densicomum]]'' {{small|Mart. ex DC.}} – Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, northwestern Brazil, Peru, and Colombia
# ''[[Psidium donianum]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – [[Maranhão]]
# ''[[Psidium eugenii]]'' {{small|Kiaersk.}} – southeastern Brazil
# ''[[Psidium firmum]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – Brazil
# ''[[Psidium friedrichsthalianum]]'' {{small|(O.Berg) Nied.}} – southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela
# ''[[Psidium fulvum]]'' {{small|McVaugh}} – Peru
# ''[[Psidium ganevii]]'' {{small|Landrum & Funch}} – [[Bahia]]
# ''[[Psidium glaziovianum]]'' {{small|Kiaersk.}} – southeastern Brazil
# ''[[Psidium grandifolium]]'' {{small|Mart. ex DC.}} – Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina
# ''[[Psidium grazielae]]'' {{small|Tuler & M.C.Souza}} – Espírito Santo
# ''[[Psidium guajava]]'' {{small|L.}} – Central and South America, West Indies, Mexico, [[Florida]], [[Louisiana]], [[Arizona]];<ref>[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Psidium%20guajava.png Biota of North America 2013 county distribution map, ''Psidium guajava'']</ref> naturalized in parts of Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and on numerous oceanic islands
# ''[[Psidium guayaquilense]]'' {{small|Landrum & Cornejo}} – Ecuador
# ''[[Psidium guineense]]'' {{small|Sw.}} – Central and South America, Windward Islands, and Mexico
# ''[[Psidium guyanense]]'' {{small|Pers.}} – northern Brazil, Venezuela, and French Guiana
# ''[[Psidium harrisianum]]'' {{small|Urb.}} – Jamaica
# ''[[Psidium huanucoense]]'' {{small|Landrum}} – [[Huánuco Region|Huánuco]]
# ''[[Psidium × hypoglaucum]]'' {{small|Standl.}} (''P. guajava'' × ''P. guineense'') – Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras
# ''[[Psidium inaequilaterum]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – southeastern Brazil
# ''[[Psidium involutisepalum]]'' {{small|Tuler, Carrijo & Peixoto}} – Rio de Janeiro
# ''[[Psidium itanareense]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]]
# ''[[Psidium jacquinianum]]'' {{small|(O.Berg) Mattos}} – unknown; likely South America
# ''[[Psidium kennedyanum]]'' {{small|Morong}} – Brazil, Paraguay, NE Argentina
# ''[[Psidium langsdorffii]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – [[Minas Gerais]]
# ''[[Psidium laruotteanum]]'' {{small|Cambess.}} – Costa Rica to Paraguay
# ''[[Psidium longipetiolatum]]'' {{small|D.Legrand}} – southern Brazil
# ''[[Psidium macahense]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – Espírito Santo to Rio de Janeiro
# ''[[Psidium maribense]]'' {{small|Mart. ex DC.}} – Colombia, Venezuela, N Brazil
# ''[[Psidium minutifolium]]'' {{small|Krug & Urb.}} – Cuba
# ''[[Psidium misionum]]'' {{small|D.Legrand}} – Paraguay and [[Misiones Province|Misiones]]
# ''[[Psidium montanum]]'' {{small|Sw.}} – Jamaica
# ''[[Psidium myrsinites]]'' {{small|DC.}} – Brazil
# ''[[Psidium myrtoides]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – Brazil
# ''[[Psidium nannophyllum]]'' {{small|Alain}} – Dominican Rep
# ''[[Psidium nummularia]]'' {{small|(C.Wright ex Griseb.) C.Wright}} – Cuba
# ''[[Psidium nutans]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – Brazil and northeastern Argentina
# ''[[Psidium oblongatum]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – [[Minas Gerais]], [[Espírito Santo]]
# ''[[Psidium oblongifolium]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – southeastern Brazil
# ''[[Psidium occidentale]]'' {{small|Landrum & Parra-Os.}} – southwestern Colombia and Ecuador
# ''[[Psidium oligospermum]]'' {{small|Mart. ex DC.}} (synonyms ''[[Psidium sartorianum]]'' and ''[[Psidium sintenisii]]'') – Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, to tropical South America
# ''[[Psidium oncocalyx]]'' {{small|Burret}} – [[Bahia]]
# ''[[Psidium ovale]]'' {{small|(Spreng.) Burret}} – [[Minas Gerais]], [[Santa Catarina (state)|Santa Catarina]]
# ''[[Psidium parvifolium]]'' {{small|Griseb.}} – Cuba
# ''[[Psidium pedicellatum]]'' {{small|McVaugh}} – Colombia, Ecuador
# ''[[Psidium pigmeum]]'' {{small|Arruda}} – southeastern Brazil
# ''[[Psidium pulcherrimum]]'' {{small|Tuler & C.M.Costa}} – Bahia
# ''[[Psidium raimondii]]'' {{small|Burret}} – Peru
# ''[[Psidium ramboanum]]'' {{small|Mattos}} – [[Mato Grosso]]
# ''[[Psidium ratterianum]]'' {{small|Proença & Soares-Silva}} – Brasília
# ''[[Psidium refractum]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – [[Goiás]]
# ''[[Psidium rhombeum]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – [[Bahia]]
# ''[[Psidium riparium]]'' {{small|Mart. ex DC.}} – Brazil
# ''[[Psidium robustum]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – [[Maranhão]], [[Minas Gerais]], [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]]
# ''[[Psidium rostratum]]'' {{small|McVaugh}} – Peru
# ''[[Psidium rotundatum]]'' {{small|Griseb.}} – Cuba
# ''[[Psidium rotundidiscum]]'' {{small|Proença & Tuler}} – Bahia
# ''[[Psidium rufum]]'' {{small|Mart. ex DC.}} – Brazil
# ''[[Psidium rutidocarpum]]'' {{small|Ruiz & Pav. ex G.Don}} – Peru
# ''[[Psidium salutare]]'' {{small|(Kunth) O.Berg}} – Central and South America, West Indies, southern Mexico
# ''[[Psidium schenckianum]]'' {{small|Kiaersk.}} – eastern Brazil
# ''[[Psidium sessiliflorum]]'' {{small|(Landrum) Proença & Tuler}} – western Bahia
# ''[[Psidium sorocabense]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – southeastern Brazil
# ''[[Psidium striatulum ]]'' {{small|DC.}} – Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
# ''[[Psidium suffruticosum]]'' {{small|O.Berg}} – eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, central, southeastern, and southern Brazil
# ''[[Psidium urquiolanum]]'' {{small|Landrum & Z.Acosta}} – eastern Cuba
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==References==
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==External links==
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