Details for: PI 281614, Theobroma cacao L.

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Theobroma cacao L.

Origin:

Collected – Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

05 Jun 1962

PI Assigned:

1962

Inventory Volume:

170
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Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Theobroma cacao L.

Origin:

Collected – Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

05 Jun 1962

PI Assigned:

1962

Source History

Collected

Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

Collector(s):

Cocoa Board - Department of Agriculture

Accession Names and Identifiers

Narrative

Theobroma cacao L.

Genus:

Theobroma

Section:

Theobroma

Family:

Malvaceae

Subfamily:

Byttnerioideae

Tribe:

Theobromateae

Nomen number:

101885

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:782. 1753

Protologue link:

https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358803

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

11/07/1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Theobroma cacao L. Amelonado Group (0 active accession[s])
Theobroma cacao L. Contamana Group (0 active accession[s])
Theobroma cacao L. Criollo Group (0 active accession[s])
Theobroma cacao L. Curaray Group (0 active accession[s])
Theobroma cacao L. Guiana Group (0 active accession[s])
Theobroma cacao L. Iquitos Group (0 active accession[s])
Theobroma cacao L. Maranon Group (0 active accession[s])
Theobroma cacao L. Nacional Group (0 active accession[s])
Theobroma cacao L. Nanay Group (0 active accession[s])
Theobroma cacao L. Purus Group (0 active accession[s])

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

Autonym(s)
Theobroma cacao L. f. cacao
Theobroma cacao L. subsp. cacao

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Theobroma cacao L. subsp. sphaerocarpum (A. Chev.) Cuatrec.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Theobroma cacao L. f. leiocarpum (Bernoulli) Ducke
Theobroma cacao L. f. pentagonum (Bernoulli) Cuatrec.
Theobroma leiocarpum Bernoulli
Theobroma pentagonum Bernoulli
Theobroma sativum (Aubl.) Lign. & Le Bey
Theobroma sphaerocarpum A. Chev.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	cacao	1	Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
English	cocoa	1	Vossen, H. A. M. van der & M. Wessel, eds. 2000. Stimulants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 16:113.
French	cacaoyer	2	Vossen, H. A. M. van der & M. Wessel, eds. 2000. Stimulants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 16:113.
German	echter Kakaobaum	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen
German	Kakaopflanze	2	Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	cacaoeiro	2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	cacau	2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Spanish	árbol del cacao	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	cacaotero	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	calabacillo	2	Cuatrecasas, J. 1964. Cacao and its allies: a taxonomic revision of the genus Theobroma. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 35:515-517. Note: as Theobroma cacao subsp. sphaerocarpum
Spanish	forastero	2	Cuatrecasas, J. 1964. Cacao and its allies: a taxonomic revision of the genus Theobroma. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 35:515-517. Note: as Theobroma cacao subsp. sphaerocarpum
Swedish	kakao	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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