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Taxon:  Elaeis oleifera (Kunth) Cortes



Summary
Genus:
Elaeis
Family:
Arecaceae (alt. Palmae)
Subfamily:
Arecoideae
Tribe:
Cocoseae
Subtribe:
Elaeidinae
Nomen number:
70242
Place of publication:
Fl. columb. 1:203. 1897
Verified:
03/17/2010 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
Basionym
Alfonsia oleifera Kunth

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Corozo oleifera (Kunth) L. H. Bailey

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Elaeis melanococca Mart.
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Reference(s)
  1. 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
  2. Croat, T. B. Flora of Barro Colorado Island. 1978
  3. Duke, J. A. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press. 1989
  4. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  5. 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=Elaeis+oleifera&quantity=1
  6. Glassman, S. F. 1972. A revision of B. E. Dahlgren's Index of American palms. Phanerog. Monogr. 6:1-294.
  7. Govaerts, R. & J. Dransfield. World checklist of palms. 2005 http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do
  8. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  9. Henderson, A. et al. Field guide to the palms of the Americas. 1995
  10. Henderson, A. The palms of the Amazon. 1995 Note: Oxford University Press
  11. IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource). http://www.bioversityinternational.org/databases/new_world_fruits_database/search.html
  12. Ithnin, M. et al. Elaeis. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, plantation and ornamental crops. 2011 6:113-124. Note: this review mentioned crosses between Elaeis oleifera and E. guineensis, and need of backcrossing for introgressing traits from E. oleifera
  13. Jones, D. L. Palms throughout the world. 1994
  14. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  15. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  16. Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:140. Note: = Corozo oleifera (Kunth) L. H. Bailey
  17. Pederson, H. B. 1996. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
  18. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  19. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  20. Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3). 2001
  21. Terrell, E. E. et al. Agric. Handb. no. 505. 1986
Common names
English
American oil palm –
German
amerikanische Ölpalme –
Portuguese (Brazil)
caiaueré –
caiué –
corozo –
denê-do-Pará –
Spanish
coquito –
nolé –
nolí –
palmiche –
Swedish
amerikansk oljepalm –
Distribution
Native
Southern America
  • MESOAMERICA: Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela (n.)
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia (n.), Ecuador, Peru
Economic Uses
Human food


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