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Taxon: Adansonia digitata L.

Genus: Adansonia
Family: Malvaceae subfamily: Bombacoideae. Also placed in: Bombacaceae
Nomen number: 1433
Place of publication: Syst. nat. ed. 10, 2:1144. 1759 (Sp. pl. 2:1190. 1753, nom. inval.)
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: genus not validated until 1759, as Linnaeus (in Sp. pl. ed. 1 and Gen. pl.) failed to provide a description or a reference to a previously published one
Name verified on: 29-Sep-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Sep-2005
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions: 2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • baobab   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • dead-rat-tree   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • monkey-bread-tree   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • calebassier du Sénégal   (Source: C. Feuillet, p.c.) – French
  • pain de singe   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Affenbrotbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • imbondeiro   (Source: Lost Crops Afr 3:56) – Portuguese (Angola)
  • baobá   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Zaire
    West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Mali; Niger; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
    South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
    Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Transvaal
    Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar [natzd.?]
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized in tropics

References:

  • PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
  • Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flore du Cameroun. (F Cameroun)
  • Baum, D. A. 1995. A systematic revision of Adansonia (Bombacaceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 82:452.
  • Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal. (F Senegal)
  • Carrisso, L. W. et al., eds. 1937–. Conspectus florae angolensis. (F Angol)
  • Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. (F EthiopCuf)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
  • Feuillet, C. 1998. pers. comm. [re. French common names].
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Humbert, J.-H., ed. 1936–. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores. (F Madag)
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Merxmüller, H., ed. 1966–1972. Prodromus einer flora von Sudwestafrika. (F Namib)
  • National Research Council. 2008. Fruits. In: National Research Council, Lost crops of Africa. 1996- (Lost Crops Afr) 3:41–59.
  • 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)
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Check other databases for Adansonia digitata L.:

  • SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
  • On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
  • 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:

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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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National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?1433 (09 February 2010)

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