      
Taxon: Theobroma cacao L.
Genus: Theobroma
Family: Malvaceae subfamily: Byttnerioideae tribe: Theobromateae. Also placed in:
Sterculiaceae
Nomen number: 101885
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:782. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 07-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-Nov-1996
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions:
313 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- cacao (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2
) – English
- cocoa (Source: Pl Res SEAs
16:113) – English
- cacaoyer (Source: Pl Res SEAs
16:113) – French
- echter Kakaobaum (Source: Zander Ency
) – German
- Kakaopflanze (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
- cacaoeiro (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- cacau (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- árbol del cacao (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- cacaotero (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- calabacillo (Source: Contr USNH) – Spanish
- forastero (Source: Contr USNH) – Spanish
- kakao (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
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Native:
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas [s.], Tabasco
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Belize; Guatemala
Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname
Brazil: Brazil - Amazonas
Western South America: Colombia; Peru - Loreto
Cultivated:
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Argout, X. et al.
2010. The genome of Theobroma cacao.
Nat. Genet.
43:101–109.
- Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr.
1963–1968. Flora of Java.
- Bartley, B. G. D.
2005. The genetic deversity of cacao and its utilization.
341 pp.
- Cuatrecasas, J.
1964. Cacao and its allies: a taxonomic revision of the genus Theobroma.
Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
35:495.
- Dorr, L. J.
2011. Review of Malvaceae sensu lato data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2.
pers. comm.
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
- Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
- Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto.
Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- IPGRI.
New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
- Jardín Botánico Nacional.
1998–. Flora de la República de Cuba.
- Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
[accepts].
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
- Macbride, J. F. et al., eds.
1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- McVaugh, R.
1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
- Motamayor, J. C. et al.
2002. Cacao domestication I: the origin of the cacao cultivated by the Mayas.
Heredity
89:380–386.
- Motamayor, J. C. et al.
2008. Geographic and genetic population differentiation of the Amazonian chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao L.).
PLoS One
3:e3311.
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
[accepts].
- Reichel, S.
1998. pers. comm.
[re. German common names].
- Royen, P. van et al.
1964–1970. Manual of the forest trees of Papua and New Guinea.
- Silva S., C. R. & A. Figueira.
2005. Phylogenetic analysis of Theobroma (Sterculiaceae) based on Kunitz-like trypsin inhibitor sequences.
Pl. Syst. Evol.
250:93–104.
- Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark.
1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
- Thomas, E. et al.
2012. Present spatial diversity patterns of Theobroma cacao L. in the Neotropics reflect genetic differentiation in Pleistocene refugia followed by human-influenced dispersal.
PLoS One
7(10):e47676. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047676.
- Vossen, H. A. M. van der & M. Wessel, eds.
2000. Stimulants.
In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
16:113.
- Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds.
1989. A selection.
In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
A:265.
- Whitlock, B. A. & D. A. Baum.
1999. Phylogenetic relationships of Theobroma and Herrania (Sterculiaceae) based on sequences of the nuclear gene Vicilin.
Syst. Bot.
24:128–138.
- Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds.
1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Theobroma cacao L.:
- New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?101885 (19 May 2013)
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