This species has gone from Neotropical to Pantropical, due to edible fruit and folk medicine applications. Jobo is one of the more popular names. Anacardiaceae.
Edible fruit and medicinal uses has spread this tree around the tropics from a neotropical origin. The species is widely used to heal wounds, and here in Amazonian Colombia it is known as the Uvo Tree, and used against childbirth pain.