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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.
Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
Encke, F. et al.
Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. 1993
Facciola, S.
Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990
Note:
Kampong Publications
Feil, J. P.
1996. Fruit production of
Attalea colenda
(Arecaceae) in coastal Ecuador - An alternative oil resource?. Econ. Bot. 50:300.
Note:
mentions
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=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.
Field guide to the palms of the Americas. 1995
Huxley, A., ed.
The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
IPGRI.
New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
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.
Palmeiras no Brasil: nativas e exóticas. 1996
McCurrach, J. C.
Palms of the world. Palms of the world. 1960
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).
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
Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961
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
Environmental
Human food
oil/fat (seeds source of "coquito" or "coquillo oil" used in the margarine & chocolate fide CultTropS; Cornucopia) –
Reference(s)
Materials
fiber (fide Rev Peruana Biol 15:104. 2008) –
Reference(s)
Name
References
Economic Uses