Details for: TARS 18090, Euterpe oleracea Mart., Acai palm

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Euterpe oleracea Mart.

Top Name:

Acai palm

Origin:

Donated – Puerto Rico, United States

Maintained:

Tropical Agriculture Research Station

Received by NPGS:

01 Oct 2008

Form Received:

Plant

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Euterpe oleracea Mart.

Top Name:

Acai palm

Origin:

Donated – Puerto Rico, United States

Maintained:

Tropical Agriculture Research Station

Received by NPGS:

01 Oct 2008

Form Received:

Plant

Source History

Donated

01 October 2008.
Puerto Rico, United States
Comment: By Jorge Vale, retired engineer from Aguada
Donor(s):

Goenaga, Ricardo, USDA, ARS

Accession Names and Identifiers

Acai palm

Type: Local name

TARS 18090

Type: Site identifier

Group: MISC.TARS

Narrative

Medicinal Properties

Euterpe oleracea Mart.

Genus:

Euterpe

Family:

Arecaceae (alt. Palmae)

Subfamily:

Arecoideae

Tribe:

Euterpeae

Nomen number:

16475

Place of publication:

Hist. nat. palm. 2:29, t. 28-30. 1824

Verified:

11/12/1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Catis martiana O. F. Cook

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Euterpe badiocarpa Barb. Rodr.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	assai palm	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	cabbage palm	1	Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agricultural Handbook no. 505
French	pinot	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Kohlpalme	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)	açaí	2	Henderson, A. 1995. The palms of the Amazon Oxford University Press.
Portuguese (Brazil)	açaí-do-Pará	2	Lorenzi, H. et al. 1996. Palmeiras no Brasil: nativas e exóticas
Portuguese (Brazil)	açaizeiro	2	Henderson, A. 1995. The palms of the Amazon Oxford University Press.
Portuguese (Brazil)	palmiteiro	2	Lorenzi, H. et al. 1996. Palmeiras no Brasil: nativas e exóticas
Portuguese (Brazil)	palmito-açaí	2	Lorenzi, H. et al. 1996. Palmeiras no Brasil: nativas e exóticas
Portuguese (Brazil)	uaçaí	2	Lorenzi, H. et al. 1996. Palmeiras no Brasil: nativas e exóticas
Spanish	asaí	2	Villachica, H. 1996. Frutales y hortalizas promisorios de la amazonia. In: Secretaria Pro-Tempore, Tratado de Cooperacion Amazonica. 44:33-42.
Spanish	euterpe	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	para-assaipalm	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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