Details for: PI 8985, Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn.

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn.

Origin:

Collected – Ghana

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

05 Sep 1902

PI Assigned:

1900

Inventory Volume:

10
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Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn.

Origin:

Collected – Ghana

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

05 Sep 1902

PI Assigned:

1900

Source History

Collected

Ghana

Collector(s):

Botanic Gardens

Accession Names and Identifiers

Narrative

Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn.

Genus:

Vitellaria

Family:

Sapotaceae

Subfamily:

Sapotoideae

Nomen number:

102598

Place of publication:

Suppl. carp. 131, t. 205. 1807

Verified:

11/20/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Butyrospermum paradoxum (C. F. Gaertn.) Hepper
Butyrospermum paradoxum (C. F. Gaertn.) Hepper subsp. paradoxum

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Bassia parkii G. Don
Butyrospermum paradoxum (C. F. Gaertn.) Hepper subsp. parkii (G. Don) Hepper
Butyrospermum parkii (G. Don) Kotschy

Common names

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	bambouk-buttertree		1	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
English	galam-buttertree		1	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
English	karite-nut		1	Prescott-Allen, R. & C. Prescott-Allen. 1990. How many plants feed the world? Conservation Biol. 4:365-374. Note: mentions
English	shea	as Butyrospermum parkii	1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary. Note: = Butyrospermum parkii
English	shea-buttertree		1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	sheatree	as Butyrospermum parkii	1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary. Note: = Butyrospermum parkii
French	arbre à beurre		2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
French	karité		2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
German	Schibutterbaum		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese	cárei		2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Portuguese	carité		2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Spanish	árbol montequero		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	butirospermo		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	sheasmörträd		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

Annotations

The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received: 07 Oct 1997, from Butyrospermum parkii (G. Don) Kotschy to Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn.