Details for: PI 55914, Bertholletia excelsa Humb. & Bonpl.

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Bertholletia excelsa Humb. & Bonpl.

Origin:

Collected – Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

01 Nov 1922

PI Assigned:

1922

Inventory Volume:

73
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Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Bertholletia excelsa Humb. & Bonpl.

Origin:

Collected – Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

01 Nov 1922

PI Assigned:

1922

Source History

Collected

Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Collector(s):

Bowles, J.S.

Accession Names and Identifiers

Narrative

Bertholletia excelsa Humb. & Bonpl.

Genus:

Bertholletia

Family:

Lecythidaceae

Subfamily:

Lecythidoideae

Nomen number:

7022

Place of publication:

Pl. aequinoct. 1:122-127, t. 36. 1807 ("1808")

Comment:

despite the indication in TL-2 of Bonpland as the "Author of text" for this work, Bonpland is really only identified on the title page as the editor of a work jointly authored by both Humboldt and Bonpland, who thus have joint authorship of any nomenclatural novelties therein

Verified:

01/10/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Bertholletia nobilis Miers

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	Brazilnut	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	Brazilnut-tree	1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	creamnut	1	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
English	Paranut	1	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Dutch	Braziliaansche noot	2	Mori, S. A. et al. Lecythidaceae pages (on-line resource).
French	noyer de Para	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	noyer du Brésil	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Paranußbaum	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese	castanha-do-Brasil	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese	castanha-do-Pará	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)	castanheira	2	Mori, S. A. et al. Lecythidaceae pages (on-line resource).
Spanish	castaña del Brasil	2	Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
Spanish	castaño de Pará	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	nuez del Brasil	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish (Bolivia)	tapa	2	Mori, S. A. et al. Lecythidaceae pages (on-line resource).
Spanish (Peru)	castaña	2	Mori, S. A. et al. Lecythidaceae pages (on-line resource).
Swedish	paranöt	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

Annotations

Nomenclature Name Change: 05 Mar 2020, from Bertholletia nobilis Miers to Bertholletia excelsa Humb. & Bonpl.