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Taxon:
Elaeis guineensis
Jacq.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Elaeis
Family:
Arecaceae
(alt. Palmae)
Subfamily:
Arecoideae
Tribe:
Cocoseae
Subtribe:
Elaeidinae
Nomen number:
14936
Place of publication:
Select. stirp. amer. hist. 280, t. 172. 1763
Verified:
03/17/2010
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
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Elaeis guineensis
Jacq. var.
madagascariensis
Jum. & H. Perrier
Elaeis madagascariensis
(Jum. & H. Perrier) Becc.
Elaeis melanococca
Gaertn.
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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
Dransfield, J. & H. Beentje.
The palms of Madagascar. 1995
Duke, J. A.
Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press. 1989
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=Elaeis+guineensis&quantity=1
Glassman, S. F.
1972. A revision of B. E. Dahlgren's Index of American palms. Phanerog. Monogr. 6:1-294.
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
Hartley, C. W. S.
1988. The oil palm (
Elaeis guineensis
Jacq.), ed. 3. 761 pp.
Ithnin, M. et al.
Elaeis
. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, plantation and ornamental crops. 2011 6:113-124.
Jones, D. L.
Palms throughout the world. 1994
Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972
Keay, R. W. J.
Trees of Nigeria. 1989
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
Hortus third. 1976
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 7:144.
Opsomer, J. E.
1956. Les premières descriptions du palmier à huile (
Elaeis guineensis
). Bull. Séances Acad. Roy. Sci. Outre Mer 2:253.
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
Smith, A. C.
Flora vitiensis nova. 1979-1991
Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
Uhl, N. W. & J. Dransfield.
Genera palmarum: a classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore, Jr. 1987
Vossen, H. A. M. van der & B. E. Umali, eds.
2001. Vegetable oils and fats. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 14:85-93.
http://proseanet.org
Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds.
1989. A selection. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- A:118.
http://proseanet.org
PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
African oil palm –
Reference(s)
macaw-fat –
Reference(s)
oil palm –
Reference(s)
French
palmier à huile –
Reference(s)
palmier à huile d'Afrique –
Reference(s)
German
Ölpalme –
Reference(s)
afrikanische Ölpalme –
Reference(s)
Indonesian
kelapa sawit –
Reference(s)
Malay
kelapa sawit –
Reference(s)
Portuguese
palmeira-andim –
Reference(s)
palmeira-do-azeite –
Reference(s)
palmeira-do-dendê –
Reference(s)
Portuguese (Brazil)
dendê –
Reference(s)
dendezeiro –
Reference(s)
Spanish
palma africana –
Reference(s)
Swahili
mchikichi –
Reference(s)
Swedish
oljepalm –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
order_code
Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Kenya
1
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Tanzania
1
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Uganda
1
Native
Africa
South Tropical Africa
Angola
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Benin
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Côte D'Ivoire
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Ghana
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Guinea
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Liberia
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Nigeria
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Senegal
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Sierra Leone
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Togo
1
Native
Africa
West-Central Tropical Africa
Burundi
1
Native
Africa
West-Central Tropical Africa
Cameroon
1
Native
Africa
West-Central Tropical Africa
Central African Republic
1
Native
Africa
West-Central Tropical Africa
Congo
1
Native
Africa
West-Central Tropical Africa
Gabon
1
Native
Africa
West-Central Tropical Africa
Rwanda
1
Native
Africa
West-Central Tropical Africa
Zaire
2
Cultivated
widely cult. in tropics
4
Naturalized
Africa
Western Indian Ocean
Madagascar
natzd.?
4
Naturalized
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Sri Lanka
4
Naturalized
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Indonesia
Sumatra
4
Naturalized
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Malaysia
Native
Africa
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Angola
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Benin
,
Côte D'Ivoire
,
Ghana
,
Guinea
,
Liberia
,
Nigeria
,
Senegal
,
Sierra Leone
,
Togo
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Burundi
,
Central African Republic
,
Cameroon
,
Congo
,
Gabon
,
Rwanda
,
Zaire
Cultivated
(widely cult. in tropics)
Naturalized
Africa
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN:
Madagascar
(natzd.?)
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Sri Lanka
MALESIA:
Indonesia
[Sumatra],
Malaysia
Economic Uses
Environmental
Fuels
petroleum substitute/alcohol (fide PROTA4U; http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0509-biofuels.html,) –
Reference(s)
Human food
beverage base (fide PROTA4U) –
Reference(s)
Materials
beads (fide PROTA4U) –
Reference(s)
Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; PROTA4U) –
Reference(s)
Name
References
Economic Uses