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Taxon:
Attalea funifera
Mart. ex Spreng.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Attalea
Family:
Arecaceae
(alt. Palmae)
Subfamily:
Arecoideae
Tribe:
Cocoseae
Subtribe:
Attaleinae
Nomen number:
6061
Place of publication:
Syst. veg. 2:624. 1825 (C. Martius, Hist. nat. palm. 2:136, t. 95, 96, fig. 4. 1826)
Verified:
02/14/2012
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage
Encke, F. et al.
1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
Feil, J. P.
1996. Fruit production of
Attalea colenda
(Arecaceae) in coastal Ecuador - An alternative oil resource? Econ. Bot. 50:300.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12231
Note:
mentions
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
URL:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Attalea+funifera&quantity=1
Glassman, S. F.
1972. A revision of B. E. Dahlgren's Index of American palms. Phanerog. Monogr. 6:1-294.
Henderson, A. et al.
1995. Field guide to the palms of the Americas
Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
IPGRI.
New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/databases/new_world_fruits_database/search.html
Kronborg, M. et al.
2008.
Aphandra natalia
(Arecaceae) - a little known source of piassaba fibers from the western Amazon. Revista Peruana Biol. 15(Suppl. 1):103-113.
Lorenzi, H. et al.
1996. Palmeiras no Brasil: nativas e exóticas
McCurrach, J. C.
1960. Palms of the world. Palms of the world.
Note:
Harper Brothers
Moore, H. E., Jr.
1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:129.
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Rehm, S. & G. Espig.
1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
Common names
English
Bahia piassava palm –
Reference(s)
coquilla-nut –
Reference(s)
piassaba –
Reference(s)
pissaba palm –
Reference(s)
French
attalée à cordes –
Reference(s)
piassave –
Reference(s)
German
Bahiapiassavapalme –
Reference(s)
Portuguese
piaçaba-da-Bahia –
Reference(s)
Spanish
piasava –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
order_code
Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Southern America
Brazil
Brazil
Alagoas
1
Native
Southern America
Brazil
Brazil
Bahia
1
Native
Southern America
Brazil
Brazil
Sergipe
2
Cultivated
also cult.
Native
Southern America
BRAZIL:
Brazil
[Alagoas, Bahia, Sergipe]
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Environmental
ornamental
occasionally
Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Human food
oil/fat
seeds source of "coquito" or "coquillo oil" used in the margarine & chocolate fide CultTropS; Cornucopia
Rehm, S. & G. Espig.
1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics
Materials
fiber
fide Rev Peruana Biol 15:104. 2008
Kronborg, M. et al.
2008.
Aphandra natalia
(Arecaceae) - a little known source of piassaba fibers from the western Amazon. Revista Peruana Biol. 15(Suppl. 1):103-113.
Name
References