Details for: PI 41254, Attalea speciosa Mart. ex Spreng., Babassu

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Attalea speciosa Mart. ex Spreng.

Top Name:

Babassu

Origin:

Collected – Pará, Brazil

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

09 Sep 1915

PI Assigned:

1915

Inventory Volume:

44
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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Attalea speciosa Mart. ex Spreng.

Top Name:

Babassu

Origin:

Collected – Pará, Brazil

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

09 Sep 1915

PI Assigned:

1915

Source History

Collected

Pará, Brazil

Collector(s):

Pickerell, G.H., Office of U.S. Consul - Para

Accession Names and Identifiers

Babassu

Type: Local name

Uauassu

Type: Local name

Narrative

Attalea speciosa Mart. ex Spreng.

Genus:

Attalea

Family:

Arecaceae (alt. Palmae)

Subfamily:

Arecoideae

Tribe:

Cocoseae

Subtribe:

Attaleinae

Nomen number:

6067

Place of publication:

Syst. veg. 2:624. 1825

Protologue link:

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2922624

Verified:

11/12/1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Orbignya speciosa (Mart. ex Spreng.) Barb. Rodr.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Attalea glassmanii Zona
Orbignya barbosiana Burret
Orbignya huebneri Burret
Orbignya martiana Barb. Rodr.
Orbignya phalerata Mart.

Common names

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	babassu palm		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	babassou		2	Feuillet, C. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. French common names
German	Babussupalme	as Orbignya martiana	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage Note: = Orbignya martiana
Portuguese (Brazil)	aguaçu		2	Queiroga, V. P. et al. 2018. Attalea speciosa. Babaçu. In: Coradin, L. et al., Espécies nativas da flora brasileira de valor econômico atual ou potencial: plantas para o futuro: região Nordeste 1017-1030. Note: all parts are used, some with local importance and others like seeds of commercial importance
Portuguese (Brazil)	auaçu		2	Queiroga, V. P. et al. 2018. Attalea speciosa. Babaçu. In: Coradin, L. et al., Espécies nativas da flora brasileira de valor econômico atual ou potencial: plantas para o futuro: região Nordeste 1017-1030. Note: all parts are used, some with local importance and others like seeds of commercial importance
Portuguese (Brazil)	babaçu		2	Henderson, A. 1995. The palms of the Amazon Oxford University Press.
Portuguese (Brazil)	baguaçu		2	Queiroga, V. P. et al. 2018. Attalea speciosa. Babaçu. In: Coradin, L. et al., Espécies nativas da flora brasileira de valor econômico atual ou potencial: plantas para o futuro: região Nordeste 1017-1030. Note: all parts are used, some with local importance and others like seeds of commercial importance
Portuguese (Brazil)	guaguaçu		2	Queiroga, V. P. et al. 2018. Attalea speciosa. Babaçu. In: Coradin, L. et al., Espécies nativas da flora brasileira de valor econômico atual ou potencial: plantas para o futuro: região Nordeste 1017-1030. Note: all parts are used, some with local importance and others like seeds of commercial importance
Spanish (Bolivia)	cusí		2	Henderson, A. 1995. The palms of the Amazon Oxford University Press.

Annotations

The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received: 29 Dec 1995, from Orbignya speciosa (Mart. ex Spreng.) Barb. Rodr. to Orbignya phalerata Mart.
Taxonomic Re-Identification: 14 Nov 1996, from Orbignya phalerata Mart. to Attalea speciosa Mart. ex Spreng.