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Taxon: Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.

Genus: Ananas
Family: Bromeliaceae.
Nomen number: 3074
Place of publication: Interpr. Herb. amboin. 133. 1917
Name verified on: 29-Aug-1986 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 07-Oct-2005
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Hilo (HILO).
Accessions: 135 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • pineapple   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • ananas   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Ananas   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • abacaxi   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • ananás   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • abacaxí-do-mato   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • ananás-selvagem   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • gravatá   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • ananá   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • piña   (Source: B. León, p.c.) – Spanish
  • piña de América   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • piña tropical   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Brazil: Brazil [probable origin, now perhaps only escaping from cult.]

      Cultivated:
  • cultivated elsewhere in tropics

References:

  • Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
  • Angely, J. A. 1965. Flora analitica do Parana. (L Parana)
  • Angely, J. A. 1970–. Flora analítica e fitográfica do Estado de São Paulo. (F Anal Sao Paulo)
  • Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas)
  • Dodson, C. H. & A. H. Gentry. 1978. Flora of the Rio Palenque science center. (F RPalenq)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • 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)
  • Fournet, J. 1978. Flore illustree des phanerogames de Guadeloupe et de Martinique. (F GuadMart)
  • Gooding, E. G. et al. 1965. Flora of Barbados. (F Barbados)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • IPGRI. New World Fruits Database - on-line resource. (New World Fruits)
  • Lasser, T., ed. 1964–. Flora de Venezuela. (F Venez)
  • León, B. 1995. pers. comm. [re. Spanish common names].
  • Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis. (F PR)
  • Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. (Crops US)
  • Maguire, B. et al. 1953–. The botany of the Guayana highland. (F GuayanHigh)
  • 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)
  • Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp)
  • Parham, J. W. 1972. Plants of the Fiji islands, revised ed. (F Fiji)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Pulle, A. A. et al., eds. 1932–. Flora of Suriname. (F Suriname)
  • Rauh, W. 1981. Bromelien. 327.
  • Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. (CultTropS)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. (F SCatarin)
  • Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
  • Smith, L. B. & R. J. Downs. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14(3):2061–63.
  • St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii)
  • Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
  • Standley, P. C. 1937–1939. Flora of Costa Rica. (F CRStand)
  • Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
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Check other databases for Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.:

  • 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.

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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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
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