Details for: PI 80412, Adansonia digitata L., Baobab


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Adansonia digitata L.
Top Name:
Baobab
Origin:
Donated – Gambia
Received by NPGS:
May 1929
PI Assigned:
1929
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Adansonia digitata L.
Top Name:
Baobab
Origin:
Donated – Gambia
Received by NPGS:
May 1929
PI Assigned:
1929
Source History
Donated
15 May 1929.
Gambia

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Accession Names and Identifiers
Baobab
Type: Local name

TARS 1528
Type: Other or unclassified name

Narrative
Adansonia digitata L.
Genus:
Adansonia
Family:
Malvaceae
Subfamily:
Bombacoideae
Nomen number:

1433
Place of publication:

Syst. nat. ed. 10, 2:1144. 1759 (Sp. pl. 2:1190. 1753, nom. inval.)
Comment:
genus not validated until 1759, as Linnaeus (in Sp. pl. ed. 1 and Gen. pl.) failed to provide a description or a reference to a previously published one
Verified:
09/29/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Adansonia kilima Pettigrew et al.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishbaobab  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishdead-rat-tree  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Englishmonkey-bread-tree  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Afrikaanskremetart  2Wyk, B.-E. van et al. 2009. Medicinal plants of South Africa Note: Briza Publications, Pretoria, South Africa
Frenchcalebassier du Sénégal  2Feuillet, C. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. French common names
Frenchpain de singe  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanAffenbrotbaum  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Angola)imbondeiro  2Borlaug, N. et al., eds. 2008. Fruits: Baobab. In: National Research Council, Lost crops of Africa. 3:41-59.
Portuguese (Brazil)baobá  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Swedishbaobab  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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