Details for: HBAC 11, Bactris gasipaes Kunth var. gasipaes, Benjamin Constant (B-5)

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Bactris gasipaes Kunth var. gasipaes

Top Name:

Benjamin Constant (B-5)

Origin:

Collected – Amazonas, Brazil

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository -- Hilo

Received by NPGS:

10 Jun 1992

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Reproductive Uniformity:

Mixture

Form Received:

Seedling

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	10 count	Sporatic availability	HBAC 11 SD

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Bactris gasipaes Kunth var. gasipaes

Top Name:

Benjamin Constant (B-5)

Origin:

Collected – Amazonas, Brazil

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository -- Hilo

Received by NPGS:

10 Jun 1992

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Reproductive Uniformity:

Mixture

Form Received:

Seedling

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Collected

Amazonas, Brazil
Coordinates: -4.9158, -64.7754 (Map it)
Elevation: 200m.
Georeference protocol: Coordinates determined by IRRI georef

Collector(s):

Clements, Charles, University of Hawaii

Accession Names and Identifiers

Benjamin Constant (B-5)

Type: Collector identifier

Clements, Charles University of Hawaii

Peach palm, Pejibaye

Type: Local name

Narrative

From one of the "Macrocarpa" landraces from Western Amazonia. About 10 to 15% of the trees are spineless on the stem and leaf petiole. Seeds were selected from one of the 320 spineless experiment trees at INPA, Manaus, Brazil.

Bactris gasipaes Kunth var. gasipaes

Genus:

Bactris

Family:

Arecaceae (alt. Palmae)

Subfamily:

Arecoideae

Tribe:

Cocoseae

Subtribe:

Bactridinae

Nomen number:

6254

Verified:

05/02/2000 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Bactris gasipaes Kunth (0 active accession[s])
Bactris gasipaes Kunth var. chichagui (H. Karst.) A. J. Hend. (0 active accession[s])

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

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Guilielma gasipaes (Kunth) L. H. Bailey
Guilielma speciosa Mart.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Bactris speciosa (Mart.) H. Karst.
Bactris speciosa (Mart.) H. Karst. var. speciosa
Bactris utilis (Oerst.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex Hemsl.
Guilielma utilis Oerst.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	peach palm	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	palmier pêche	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	parépou	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Pfirsichpalme	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)	pupunha	2	Arkcoll, D. B. & C. R. Clemenet. 1989. Potential new food crops from the Amazon. In: G. E. Wickens et al., New crops for food and industry. In: Wickens, G. E. et al., eds., New crops for food and industry 154.
Spanish	gachipaes	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	masato	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	pejibaye	2	Villachica, H. 1996. Frutales y hortalizas promisorios de la amazonia. In: Secretaria Pro-Tempore, Tratado de Cooperacion Amazonica. 44:215-226.
Spanish (Colombia)	chonta	2	Henderson, A. 1995. The palms of the Amazon Oxford University Press.
Spanish (Peru)	pijuayo	2	Henderson, A. 1995. The palms of the Amazon Oxford University Press.

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