Elaeis guineensis Jacq.
Distribution
Native to:
Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaïre
Introduced into:
Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Burkina, Burundi, Caroline Is., Comoros, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Haiti, Madagascar, Malaya, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Society Is., Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Trinidad-Tobago, Vietnam
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Elaeis guineensis subsp. nigrescens A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 46 (1910), not validly publ.
- Elaeis nigrescens (A.Chev.) Prain in Index Kew., Suppl. 4: 77 (1913), not validly publ.
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Elaeis dybowskii Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 1: 315 (1895)
- Elaeis guineensis var. albescens Becc. in Contr. Conosc. Palma Olio: 62 (1914)
- Elaeis guineensis f. androgyna A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis var. angulosa Becc. in Contr. Conosc. Palma Olio: 49 (1914)
- Elaeis guineensis f. caryolitica Becc. in Contr. Conosc. Palma Olio: 65 (1914)
- Elaeis guineensis var. ceredia A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis var. compressa Becc. in Contr. Conosc. Palma Olio: 71 (1914)
- Elaeis guineensis f. dioica A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis f. dura Becc. in Contr. Conosc. Palma Olio: 37 (1914)
- Elaeis guineensis f. fatua Becc. in Contr. Conosc. Palma Olio: 54 (1914)
- Elaeis guineensis var. gracilinux A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis var. idolatrica A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis var. intermedia A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis var. leucocarpa Becc. in Contr. Conosc. Palma Olio: 40 (1914)
- Elaeis guineensis var. macrocarpa A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis var. macrocarya Becc. in Contr. Conosc. Palma Olio: 71 (1914)
- Elaeis guineensis var. macrophylla A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis var. macrosperma Welw. in Apont.: 584 (1859)
- Elaeis guineensis var. madagascariensis Jum. & H.Perrier in Mat. Gross: 6 (1911)
- Elaeis guineensis var. microsperma Welw. in Apont.: 584 (1859)
- Elaeis guineensis var. pisifera A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis f. ramosa A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis var. repanda A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis var. rostrata Becc. in Contr. Conosc. Palma Olio: 50 (1914)
- Elaeis guineensis f. semidura Becc. in Contr. Conosc. Palma Olio: 56 (1914)
- Elaeis guineensis var. sempernigra A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis var. spectabilis A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 66 (1910)
- Elaeis guineensis f. tenera Becc. in Contr. Conosc. Palma Olio: 38 (1914)
- Elaeis guineensis subsp. virescens A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 7: 60 (1910)
- Elaeis macrophylla A.Chev. in Explor. Bot. Afrique Occ. Franç. 1: 676 (1920), nom. nud.
- Elaeis madagascariensis (Jum. & H.Perrier) Becc. in Palme Madagascar: 55 (1914)
- Elaeis melanococca Gaertn. in Fruct. Sem. Pl. 1: 18 (1788)
- Elaeis virescens (A.Chev.) Prain in Index Kew., Suppl. 4: 77 (1913)
- Palma oleosa Mill. in Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 6 (1768)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
- Anh, T.T.P. & Henderson, A. (2017). Thực Vật Chí Việt Nam. Flora of Vietnam 13: 1-414. Nhà xuất bản khoa học và kỹ thuật, Hà Nội.
- 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.
- Berendsohn, W.G., Gruber, A.K. & Monterrosa Salomón, J. (2012). Nova Silva Cusatlantica. Árboles natinos e introducidos de El Salvador. Parte 2: Angiospermae - Familias M a P y Pteridophyta. Englera 29-2: 1-300.
- Boulvert, Y. (1977). Catalogue de la Flore de Centrafrique 3: 1-89. ORSTOM, Bangui.
- Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
- Catarino, L., Martins, E.S., Diniz, M.A. & Pinto-Basto, M.F. (2006). Check-list da flora vascular do parque natural das Lagos de Cufada (Guiné-Bissau). Garcia de Orta, Série de Botânica 17: 97-141.
- Couvreur, T.L.P. & Sunderland, T.C.H. (2022). Flore du Cameroun 44: 1-138. Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche scientifique (Mesres), Yaoundé.
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Figueiredo, E., Paiva, J., Stévart, T., Oliveira, F. & Smith, G.F. (2011). Annotated catalogue of the flowering plants of São Tomé and Príncipe. Bothalia 41: 41-82.
- Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Hammel, B.E. & al. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 2: 1-694. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
- Jones, M. (1991). A checklist of Gambian plants: 1-33. Michael Jones, The Gambia College.
- Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania. Revue de Taxonomie et de Nomenclature Botaniques 30: 1-307.
- Meyer, J.-Y., Lavergne, C. & Hodel, D.R. (2008). Time bombs in gardens: invasive ornamental palms in tropical islands, with emphasis on French Polynesia (Pacific Ocean) and the Mascarenes (Indian Ocean). Palms; Journal of the International Palm Society 52: 23-35.
- Mostaph, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
- Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
- 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.
- Takeuchi, W. (2005). Floristic notes from a holocene successional environment in Papuasia. Harvard Papers in Botany 10: 95-116.
- Timberlake, J.R. & Martins, E.S. (eds.) (2010). Flora Zambesiaca 13(2): 1-83. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Velayos, M., Barberá, P., Cabezas, F.J., de la Estrella, M., Fero, M. & Aedo, C. (2014). Checklist of the vascular plants of Annobón (Equatorial Guinea). Phytotaxa 171: 1-78.
Palmweb - Palms of the World Online
- Borchsenius F., Borgtoft-Pedersen H. and Baslev H. 1998. Manual to the Palms of Ecuador. AAU Reports 37. Department of Systematic Botany, University of Aarhus, Denmark in collaboration with Pontificia Universidad Catalica del Ecuador
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
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- F.T.A. 8: 125.
- Select. Stirp. Am. Hist. 280, t. 172 (1763)
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Anh, T.T.P. & Henderson, A. (2017). Thực Vật Chí Việt Nam. Flora of Vietnam 13: 1-414. Nhà xuất bản khoa học và kỹ thuật, Hà Nội.
- 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.
- Berendsohn, W.G., Gruber, A.K. & Monterrosa Salomón, J. (2012). Nova Silva Cusatlantica. Árboles natinos e introducidos de El Salvador. Parte 2: Angiospermae - Familias M a P y Pteridophyta. Englera 29-2: 1-300.
- Catarino, L., Martins, E.S., Diniz, M.A. & Pinto-Basto, M.F. (2006). Check-list da flora vascular do parque natural das Lagos de Cufada (Guiné-Bissau). Garcia de Orta, Série de Botânica 17: 97-141.
- Couvreur, T.L.P. & Sunderland, T.C.H. (2022). Flore du Cameroun 44: 1-138. Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche scientifique (Mesres), Yaoundé.
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Figueiredo, E., Paiva, J., Stévart, T., Oliveira, F. & Smith, G.F. (2011). Annotated catalogue of the flowering plants of São Tomé and Príncipe. Bothalia 41: 41-82.
- Jones, M. (1991). A checklist of Gambian plants: 1-33. Michael Jones, The Gambia College.
- Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- Meyer, J.-Y., Lavergne, C. & Hodel, D.R. (2008). Time bombs in gardens: invasive ornamental palms in tropical islands, with emphasis on French Polynesia (Pacific Ocean) and the Mascarenes (Indian Ocean). Palms; Journal of the International Palm Society 52: 23-35.
- Mostaph, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
- Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.
- 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.
- Takeuchi, W. (2005). Floristic notes from a holocene successional environment in Papuasia. Harvard Papers in Botany 10: 95-116.
- Timberlake, J.R. & Martins, E.S. (eds.) (2010). Flora Zambesiaca 13(2): 1-83. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- A. Chev. in Veg. Ut. Afr. Trop. Fr.: 7 (1910).
- A. Engler & O. Drude, Die Vegetation Der Erde, IX, Pflanzenwelt Afrikas 2: 234 (1908).
- C.H. Wright in Flora of Tropical Africa 8: 125 (1901).
- Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 11 (1961).
- Hamilton, Uganda For. Trees: 76 (1981).
- J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 398 (1949).
- Jacq., Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist.: 280, t. 172 (1763).
- Kirk in Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany 9: 231 (1866).
- R. O. Williams, Useful and Ornamental Plants in Zanzibar and Pemba p. 241 (1949).
- T.A. Russell in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 3: 161 (1968).
- Troupin, Fl. Pl. Lign. Rwanda: 70 (1982).
- W.J. Eggeling, Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate, ed. 2: 292 (1952).
- Warb. in Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete, Theile C: 131 (1895).
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
- Burkill HM. (1995). The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vols. 1-3. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vols 1-3.
- Cámara-Leret, R., & Dennehy, Z. (2019). Information gaps in indigenous and local knowledge for science-policy assessments. Nature Sustainability 2:736-741.
- Dempewolf, H., Eastwood, R. J., Guarino, L., Khoury, C. K., Müller, J. V. & Toll, J. (2014). Adapting agriculture to climate change: a global initiative to collect, conserve, and use crop wild relatives. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 38, 369-377.
- 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/
- IUCN (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
- Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
- PROTA (2021). Plants Resources of Tropical Africa. https://prota4u.org/database/
- Palmweb (2021). Palmweb: Palms of the World Online. http://palmweb.org/node/2
- RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
- Ulian, T., Sacandé, M., Hudson, A., & Mattana, E. (2017). Conservation of indigenous plants to support community livelihoods: the MGU–Useful Plants Project. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 60:668-683.
- 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? |
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Mar 31, 2004 | Bayton, R.P. [71], Burkina Faso | K000521705 | No | ||
Oct 18, 2002 | Bayton, R.P. [20], Kenya | K000521706 | No | ||
Jan 1, 1953 | Drummond, R.B. [3341], Tanzania | K000731678 | No | ||
Ceciliano dos Prazeres Bom Jesus [s.n.], Sao Tome and Principe | 64781.000 | No | |||
Kirk [s.n.], Tanzania | K000521707 | No | |||
Chase [DNA Bank30864] | K000526299 | No | |||
Cultivated [1981-216] | K000521708 | No | |||
Perdue, R.E. [8487], Tanzania | K000731677 | No | |||
Greenway, P.J. [12080], Tanzania | K000731676 | No | |||
Ceciliano [s.n.], Sao Tome and Principe | K000209343 | No |
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Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Flora of West Tropical Africa
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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