Pseudolmedia is a flowering plant genus in the mulberry family (Moraceae). Species are found in southern Mexico, the Caribbean, and Meso- and South America. They are known in Latin America as lechechiva (approximately "goat's milk tree") and used for timber, construction wood, and sometimes in folk medicine.
Species 11 species are accepted. Pseudolmedia boliviana Pseudolmedia gentryi C.C.Berg Pseudolmedia glabrata (Liebm.) C.C.Berg, called cherry Pseudolmedia hirtula Kuhlm. Pseudolmedia laevigata Trécul Pseudolmedia laevis (Ruiz & Pav.) J.F.Macbr. (synonym Pseudolmedia ferruginea (Poepp. & Endl.) Trécul (type) *) Pseudolmedia macrophylla Trécul Pseudolmedia manabiensis C.C.Berg Pseudolmedia mollis Standl. Pseudolmedia rigida (Klotzsch & H.Karst.) Cuatrec. Pseudolmedia spuria (Sw.) Griseb. (synonym Pseudolmedia havanensis Trécul (type) *) * Note: Despite having been designated as types for this genus, The Plant List and Plants of the World Online consider P. ferruginea to be a synonym of P. laevis; and P. havanensis to be a synonym of P. spuria.
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