Arecaceae
Attalea

Attalea cohune Mart.

First published in A.D.d'Orbigny, Voy. Amér. Mér. 7(3): 121 (1844)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Mexico to Honduras, Colombia (Magdalena Valley). It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is used as animal food and a medicine, has environmental uses and for fuel and food.

Distribution

Native to:

Belize, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest

Introduced into:

Trinidad-Tobago

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Galeano, G. & Bernal, R. (2002 publ. 2003). New species and new records of Colombian palms. Caldasia 24: 277-292.
  • Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
  • Henderson, A. (2020). A revision of Attalea (Arecaceae, Arecoideae, Cocoseae, Attaleinae). Phytotaxa 444: 1-76.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666. Missouri Botanical Garden. [Cited as Orbignya cohune.]

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Kew's Economic Botany collection in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
  • Galeano, G. & Bernal, R. (2002 publ. 2003). New species and new records of Colombian palms. Caldasia 24: 277-292.
  • Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Galeano, G., & Bernal, R. (2010). Palmas de Colombia: guía de campo (No. 26042) CO-BAC, Bogotá).
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
New Collector [23] Mexico K001098849 No
Unknown [17] K001098853 No
New Collector [s.n.] K001098845 No
New Collector [94] Honduras K001098846 No
Balslev, H.; Pederson, D.; Damgaard, L.S.; Madsen, K.O.; Alvarado, A.; Serralta, A.; Moo, A.; Alvarado, O.; Duno, R.; Dzib, G.; Calvo, L.M. [8190] Mexico K000667525 No
New Collector [s.n.] Mexico K001098850 No
Balslev, H.; Pederson, D.; Damgaard, L.S.; Madsen, K.O.; Alvarado, A.; Serralta, A.; Moo, A.; Alvarado, O.; Duno, R.; Dzib, G.; Calvo, L.M. [8187] Mexico K000667524 No
Balslev, H.; Pederson, D.; Damgaard, L.S.; Madsen, K.O.; Alvarado, A.; Serralta, A.; Moo, A.; Alvarado, O.; Duno, R.; Dzib, G.; Calvo, L.M. [8219] Mexico K000667520 No
New Collector [s.n.] Trinidad and Tobago K001098851 No
New Collector; Adamson [s.n.] Unknown K001098847 No
New Collector; Hagen; Mendelam [1092] Trinidad and Tobago K001098844 No
Balslev, H.; Pederson, D.; Damgaard, L.S.; Madsen, K.O.; Alvarado, A.; Serralta, A.; Moo, A.; Alvarado, O.; Duno, R.; Dzib, G.; Calvo, L.M. [8186] Mexico K000667523 No
Jones [s.n.] Dominica K001098848 No
New Collector [68] Trinidad and Tobago K001098842 No
Spruce [s.n.] Colombia K001098852 No
New Collector [s.n.] Guatemala K001098855 No
K:SPC-66407.000 No
Unknown [s.n.] Dominica K001098856 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Living Collection Database

    • Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0