Taxon: Dipteryx odorata (Aubl.) Willd.

Common names:

• Dutch tonka-bean   (Source: HerbSpices ) – English
  
• tonga-bean   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• tonka-bean   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• coumaron   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• fève tonka   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Tonkabohnenbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• fava tonka   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Italian
  
• cumaru   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ) – Portuguese
  
• cumaruzeiro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• cumaru-de-cheiro   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cumaru-do-amazonas   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cumaru-verdadeiro   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cumarurana   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• haba tonka   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sarrapia   (Source: Trianea 5:25. 1994 [as D. rosea]) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (as a substitute for vanilla fide Leg WorldEc)
  
• Materials: beads; essential oils; tannin/dyestuff   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document; Leg WorldEc; Gilbert 1995)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Amazonas [e.], Mato Grosso [n.], Para
  Western South America: Colombia; Peru [e.]

References:

• Barbosa, C. 1994. Contribución al conocimiento de las leguminosas Colombianas. I. La tribu Galegeae (Brown) Torrey & Gray, 1838 sensu lato. Trianea 5:25. [= D. rosea Spruce ex Benth.].
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
• Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Gilbert, B. 1995. Economic plants of the Amazon. In: Seidl, P. R. et al., eds., Chemistry of the Amazon: biodiversity, natural products, and environmental issues. (Chem Amazon) 19–33.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980- (F Peru) [= Coumarouna o. Aubl.].
• 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)
• Pulle, A. A. et al., eds. 1932–. Flora of Suriname. (F Suriname)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti) [cultivated].
• Stutz, L.-C. & R. Spichiger. 1982. Las Cesalpinioideas y Faboideas del Arboretum Jenaro Herrera (provincia de Requena, departamento de Loreto, Peru). Candollea 37:56.
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Coumarouna odorata Aubl. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)

Check other databases for Dipteryx odorata (Aubl.) Willd.:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• 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 or nodulation data:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

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• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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