     
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: 26-Jul-2010
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions:
2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
- baobab (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- dead-rat-tree (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- monkey-bread-tree (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- kremetart (Source: Med Pl SAfr
) – Afrikaans
- 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)
- baobab (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
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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
Naturalized: - widely naturalized in tropics
Cultivated:
- AFRICA
Africa
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India; Sri Lanka
Malesia: Indonesia - Java
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Caribbean: West Indies
South America
- 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).
- Aubréville, A. et al., eds.
1963–. Flore du Cameroun.
- Baum, D. A.
1995. A systematic revision of Adansonia (Bombacaceae).
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
82:452.
- Berhaut, J.
1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal.
- Carrisso, L. W. et al., eds.
1937–. Conspectus florae angolensis.
- Cufodontis, G.
1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta.
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
- Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
- Feuillet, C.
1998. pers. comm.
[re. French common names].
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
- Humbert, J.-H., ed.
1936–. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores.
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
- Merxmüller, H., ed.
1966–1972. Prodromus einer flora von Sudwestafrika.
- National Research Council.
2008. Fruits.
In: National Research Council, Lost crops of Africa.
3:41–59.
- 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.
- Wyk, B.-E. van et al.
2009. Medicinal plants of South Africa.
- More:
Check other web resources for Adansonia digitata L.:
- SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity
Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
- On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- 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.
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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Cite as:
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?1433 (25 May 2013)
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