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Taxon: Cola acuminata (P. Beauv.) Schott & Endl.

Genus: Cola
Family: Malvaceae subfamily: Sterculioideae. Also placed in: Sterculiaceae
Nomen number: 101905
Place of publication: Melet. bot. 33. 1832
Name verified on: 06-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-Nov-1994
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • abata cola   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  • cola   (Source: CRC MedHerbs )
  • Cola-Pflanze   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.)
  • colateira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  • colatero   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  • colatree   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  • coleira   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  • gorra   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  • kola   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 )
  • Kolabaum   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  • kolatier sauvage   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  • noz-de-cola   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

Native:
  • AFRICA
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea; Zaire
    West Tropical Africa: Benin; Nigeria; Togo
    South Tropical Africa: Angola

References:

  • Abbiw, D. K. 1990. Useful plants of Ghana. (Use Pl Ghana)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs)
  • Duke, J. A. 1989. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press. (Handb Nuts)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
  • Keay, R. W. J. et al. 1960–1964. Nigerian trees. (Nigerian T)
  • Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
  • Rosengarten, F. 1984. The book of edible nuts. (Edible Nuts)
  • Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl)
  • Vossen, H. A. M. van der & M. Wessel, eds. 2000. Stimulants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 16:78.
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Cola acuminata (P. Beauv.) Schott & Endl.:

  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

  • GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
  • Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
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?101905 (21 November 2009)

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