     
Taxon: Cocos nucifera L.
Genus: Cocos
Family: Arecaceae (alt. Palmae) subfamily: Arecoideae tribe: Cocoseae subtribe: Attaleinae.
Nomen number: 11043
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1188. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 21-Jan-2010 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-Jan-2010
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions:
18 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
- coconut (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- coconut palm (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- copra (Source: Websters Dict
) – English
- cocotier (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- Kokosnuß (Source: Zander Ency
) – German
- Kokospalme (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- khopar (Source: Names Watson
) – India
- coqueiro (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- coco-da-bahia (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- coco-da-praia (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- coqueiro-da-bahia (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- coqueiro-da-praia (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- cocotero (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- mnazi (Source: PROTABASE
) – Swahili
- kokospalm (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
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Native:
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Malesia: Indonesia - Irian Jaya, Moluccas; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia - Queensland
- PACIFIC
Southwestern Pacific: Vanuatu
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
Indo-China: Thailand
Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia
- PACIFIC
North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Belize
Cultivated:
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
- 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).
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- Elevitch, C. R., ed.
The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource).
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Glassman, S. F.
1972. Revis. Index Amer. Palms.
- Glassman, S. F.
1987. Revisions of the palm genus Syagrus Mart. and other selected genera in the Cocos alliance.
Illinois Biol. Monogr.
56:118.
- Govaerts, R. & J. Dransfield.
2005. World checklist of palms.
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Hackett, C. & J. Carolane.
1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
- Kunkel, G.
1984. Plants for human consumption.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
- Little, E. L., Jr.
1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
- Mabberley, D. J.
1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- Moore, H. E., Jr.
1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms.
Principes
7:139.
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Rehm, S. & G. Espig.
1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- Rosengarten, F.
1984. The book of edible nuts.
- Smith, A. C.
1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
- Smith, R. J.
Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
- Walters, S. M. et al., eds.
1986–. European garden flora.
- Watson, J. F.
1868. Index to the native and scientific names of Indian and other eastern economic plants and products.
- 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:90.
- Webster's third new international dictionary.
- More:
Check other web resources for Cocos nucifera L.:
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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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?11043 (23 May 2013)
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