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Taxon: Attalea cohune Mart.

 
Genus: Attalea
Family: Arecaceae (alt.Palmae)
Subfamily: Arecoideae
Tribe: Cocoseae
Subtribe: Attaleinae
Nomen number: 6060
Place of publication: A. D. d'Orbigny, Voy. Amérique mér. 7(3). Palmiers 121. 1844
Link to protologue:
Name Verified on: 12-Nov-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 19-Sep-2017
Species priority site is:
Accessions: 19 (1 active, 1 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Animal food: fodder
  • Environmental:
  • Human food: oil/fat (fide L Edible Pl; Cornucopia)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Northern America
    • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán de Ocampo, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Campeche, Nayarit]

    Southern America
    • CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras


    Cultivated (also cult.)

References:

  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
  2. Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage (Zander ed14)
  3. Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants (Cornucopia)
  4. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). (Ecocrop)
  5. Glassman, S. F. 1977. Preliminary taxonomic studies in the palm genus Orbignya Mart. (Phytologia) 36:97-98.
  6. Henderson, A. et al. Field guide to the palms of the Americas (Palms Amer)
  7. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening (Dict Gard)
  8. IPGRI New World Fruits Database (on-line resource). (New World Fruits)
  9. Kunkel, G. Plants for human consumption (L Edible Pl)
  10. Personal Care Products Council International Nomenclature Cosmetic Ingredient (INCI)
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). (Pl Names)
  12. Rehm, S. & G. Espig The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics (CultTropS)

Check other web resources for Attalea cohune Mart. :

  • New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  • PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2019. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=6060. Accessed 24 May 2019.