Taxon: Euterpe oleracea Mart.

Common names:

• assai palm   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• cabbage palm   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• pinot   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Kohlpalme   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• açaí   (Source: Palms Amazon ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• açaí-do-Pará   (Source: Palms Brasil ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• açaizeiro   (Source: Palms Amazon ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• assaí   (Source: web document) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• palmiteiro   (Source: Palms Brasil ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• palmito-açaí   (Source: Palms Brasil ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• uaçaí   (Source: Palms Brasil ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• asaí   (Source: CoopAmaz ) – Spanish
  
• euterpe   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Palms Amazon)
  
• Human food: beverage base; fruit; oil/fat; vegetable   (main source of palmito fide CultTropS; New Crops; Palms Amazon)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Panama [e.]
  Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela - Bolivar, Delta Amacuro, Sucre
  Brazil: Brazil - Amapa, Maranhao, Para, Tocantins
  Western South America: Colombia - Antioquia, Cauca, Choco, Cordoba, Narino, Santander, Valle; Ecuador - Esmeraldas, Pichincha

References:

• Arkcoll, D. B. & C. R. Clement in G. E. Wickens. 1989. Potential new food crops from the Amazon. In: Wickens, G. E. et al., eds., New crops for food and industry. (New Crops Food Ind) 157–158.
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2. (L Guianas ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Farr, E. R. et al., eds. 1979. Index nomina genericorum.; suppl. 1986 (ING)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Glassman, S. F. 1972. Revis. index American palms.
• Henderson, A. & G. Galeano. 1996. Euterpe, Prestoea, and Neonicholsonia (Palmae). In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 72:36.
• Henderson, A. 1995. The palms of the Amazon. (Palms Amazon)
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database - on-line resource. (New World Fruits)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Lorenzi, H. et al. 1996. Palmeiras no Brasil: nativas e exóticas. (Palms Brasil)
• 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)
• Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:145.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. (CultTropS)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
• Uhl, N. W. & J. Dransfield. 1987. Genera Palmarum. (Gen Palm) 355, 357.
• Villachica, H. 1996. Frutales y hortalizas promisorios de la amazonia. In: Secretaria Pro-Tempore, Tratado de Cooperacion Amazonica. (CoopAmaz) 44:33–42.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Euterpe oleracea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Euterpe oleracea. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Euterpe badiocarpa Barb. Rodr.
  

Check other databases for Euterpe oleracea Mart.:

• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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