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Taxon:  Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn.



Summary
Genus:
Vitellaria
Family:
Sapotaceae
Subfamily:
Sapotoideae
Nomen number:
102598
Place of publication:
Suppl. carp. 131, t. 205. 1807
Verified:
11/20/1995 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Butyrospermum paradoxum (C. F. Gaertn.) Hepper

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Bassia parkii G. Don
Butyrospermum paradoxum (C. F. Gaertn.) Hepper subsp. parkii (G. Don) Hepper
Butyrospermum parkii (G. Don) Kotschy
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Reference(s)
  1. Adu-Ampomah, Y. et al. 1995. Collecting germplasm of sheanut (Vitellaria paradoxa) in Ghana. Pl. Genet. Resources Newslett. 102:37-38.
  2. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  3. Blicher-Mathiesen, U. 1994. Borneo Illipe, a fat product from different Shorea spp. (Dipterocarpaceae). Econ. Bot. 48:236. Note: = Butyrospermum paradoxum (C. F. Gaertn.) Hepper
  4. Duke, J. A. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press. 1989 Note: = Butyrospermum paradoxum (C. F. Gaertn.) Hepper
  5. Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
  6. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  7. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Vitellaria+paradoxa&quantity=1
  8. Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. World checklist and bibliography of Sapotaceae. 2001 http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do
  9. Greuter, W. et al., eds. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). 2000 Art. 9.7, Ex. 2. http://www.bgbm.org/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm
  10. Hall, J. B. & J. R. Hindle. 1995. Epitypification of Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn. (Sapotaceae). Taxon 44:409-410. Note: epitypification
  11. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972 Note: = Butyrospermum paradoxum (C. F. Gaertn.) Hepper
  12. Keay, R. W. J. Trees of Nigeria. 1989
  13. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  14. Pennington, T. D. The genera of the Sapotaceae. 1991
  15. Prescott-Allen, R. & C. Prescott-Allen. 1990. How many plants feed the world?. Conservation Biol. 4:365-374. Note: mentions
  16. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  17. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952- Note: = Butyrospermum paradoxum (C. F. Gaertn.) Hepper
  18. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). http://www.prota4u.info/
  19. Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961 Note: = Butyrospermum parkii
Common names
English
bambouk-buttertree –
galam-buttertree –
karite-nut –
shea –
shea-buttertree –
sheatree –
French
arbre à beurre –
karité –
German
Schibutterbaum –
Portuguese
cárei –
carité –
Spanish
árbol montequero –
butirospermo –
Swedish
sheasmörträd –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Uganda
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Central African Republic, Cameroon, Zaire (e.)
Economic Uses
Food additives
Human food
fruit (fide PROTA4U) –
Materials
latex/rubber (for glue, chewing gum, candles, cosmetics, lotions, medicine-base, waterproofing fide PROTA4U) –
Medicines
folklore (fide PROTA4U) –
Non-vertebrate poisons
plant pest control (fide PROTA4U) –


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