title: Pseudolmedia
text: # Pseudolmedia
  
  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.
  
  ## Selected species
  
  * Pseudolmedia ferruginea (Poepp. & Endl.) Trécul (type) *
  * Pseudolmedia gentryi C.C.Berg
  * Pseudolmedia glabrata (Liebm.) C.C.Berg, called cherry
  * Pseudolmedia havanensis Trécul (type) *
  * Pseudolmedia hirtula Kuhlm.
  * Pseudolmedia laevigata Trécul
  * Pseudolmedia laevis (Ruiz & Pav.) J.F.Macbr.
  * Pseudolmedia macrophylla Trécul
  * Pseudolmedia manabiensis C.C.Berg
  * Pseudolmedia mollis Standl.
  * Pseudolmedia rigida (Klotzsch & H.Karst.) Cuatrec.
  * Pseudolmedia spuria (Sw.) Griseb.
  
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  * Note: Despite having been designated as types for this genus, The Plant List considers P. ferruginea to be a synonym of P. laevis; and P. havanensis to be a synonym of P. spuria.
  