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Taxon:
Cocos nucifera
L.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Cocos
Family:
Arecaceae
(alt. Palmae)
Subfamily:
Arecoideae
Tribe:
Cocoseae
Subtribe:
Attaleinae
Nomen number:
11043
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:1188. 1753
Typification:
View in Linnean Typification Project
Verified:
01/21/2010
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)
Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009
Note:
based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
http://www.skud.info
Duke, J. A. et al.
CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
Elevitch, C. R., ed.
The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource).
Note:
http://www.agroforestry.net/tti/Cocos-coconut.pdf
Encke, F. et al.
Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
Erhardt, W. et al.
Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
Facciola, S.
Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990
Note:
Kampong Publications
FNA Editorial Committee.
Flora of North America. 1993-
http://floranorthamerica.org/
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Note:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Cocos+nucifera&quantity=1
Glassman, S. F.
1972. A revision of B. E. Dahlgren's Index of American palms. Phanerog. Monogr. 6:1-294.
Glassman, S. F.
1987. Revisions of the palm genus
Syagrus
Mart. and other selected genera in the
Cocos
alliance. Illinois Biol. Monogr. 56:118.
Govaerts, R. & J. Dransfield.
World checklist of palms. 2005
http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Hackett, C. & J. Carolane.
Edible Horticultural Crops. 1982
Note:
Academic Press
Kunkel, G.
Plants for human consumption. 1984
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
Hortus third. 1976
Little, E. L., Jr.
Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. 1979
Mabberley, D. J.
The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Note:
American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
Moore, H. E., Jr.
1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:139.
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Rehm, S. & G. Espig.
The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. 1991
Rehm, S.
Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
Rosengarten, F.
The book of edible nuts. 1984
Smith, A. C.
Flora vitiensis nova. 1979-1991
Smith, R. J.
Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
http://www.botanicalbeads.com/
Walters, S. M. et al., eds.
European garden flora. 1986-
Watson, J. F.
Index to the native and scientific names of Indian and other eastern economic plants and products. 1868
Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds.
1989. A selection. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- A:90.
http://proseanet.org
PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
http://www.prota4u.info/
Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961
Common names
English
coconut –
Reference(s)
coconut palm –
Reference(s)
copra –
Reference(s)
French
cocotier –
Reference(s)
German
Kokosnuß –
Reference(s)
Kokospalme –
Reference(s)
India
khopar –
Reference(s)
Portuguese
coqueiro –
Reference(s)
Portuguese (Brazil)
coco-da-bahia –
Reference(s)
coco-da-praia –
Reference(s)
coqueiro-da-bahia –
Reference(s)
coqueiro-da-praia –
Reference(s)
Spanish
cocotero –
Reference(s)
Swahili
mnazi –
Reference(s)
Swedish
kokospalm –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
order_code
Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Indonesia
Irian Jaya
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Indonesia
Moluccas
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Papua New Guinea
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Philippines
1
Native
Australasia
Australia
Australia
Queensland
1
Native
Pacific
Southwestern Pacific
Vanuatu
2
Cultivated
widely cult.
4
Naturalized
Africa
Western Indian Ocean
Madagascar
4
Naturalized
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
4
Naturalized
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Sri Lanka
4
Naturalized
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Thailand
4
Naturalized
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Indonesia
4
Naturalized
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Malaysia
4
Naturalized
Pacific
North-Central Pacific
United States
Hawaii
4
Naturalized
Pacific
Northwestern Pacific
Guam
4
Naturalized
Pacific
Northwestern Pacific
Marshall Islands
4
Naturalized
Pacific
Northwestern Pacific
Northern Mariana Islands
4
Naturalized
Pacific
Northwestern Pacific
Palau
4
Naturalized
Pacific
South-Central Pacific
French Polynesia
4
Naturalized
Southern America
Mesoamerica
Belize
Native
Asia-Tropical
MALESIA:
Indonesia
[Moluccas, Irian Jaya],
Philippines
,
Papua New Guinea
Australasia
AUSTRALIA:
Australia
[Queensland]
Pacific
SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
Vanuatu
Cultivated
(widely cult.)
Naturalized
Africa
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN:
Madagascar
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
,
Sri Lanka
INDO-CHINA:
Thailand
MALESIA:
Indonesia
,
Malaysia
Pacific
NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
United States
[Hawaii]
NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
Guam
,
Marshall Islands
,
Northern Mariana Islands
,
Palau
SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
French Polynesia
Southern America
MESOAMERICA:
Belize
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
ornamental (fide Zander ed14; Eur Gard F) –
Reference(s)
Food additives
emulsifier (fide PROTA4U) –
Reference(s)
Human food
beverage base (fide CultTropS) –
Reference(s)
Materials
beads (fide Bot Beads World; as http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_100.html,) –
Reference(s)
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Reference(s)
Name
References
Economic Uses