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Taxon: Pentadesma butyracea Sabine

Genus: Pentadesma
Family: Clusiaceae (alt. Guttiferae).
Nomen number: 311302
Place of publication: Trans. Hort. Soc. London 5:427. 1824
Name verified on: 03-Jul-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 03-Jul-2008
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • buttertree   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • kanya   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  • tallowtree   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  • arbre à beurre   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • arbre à chandelle   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  • lami   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  • mamão   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  • mata passo   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  • pau ová   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: revegetator   (used for reafforestation fide Use Pl WT Afr)
  • Human food: oil/fat   (fide PROTABASE)
  • Materials: lipids; wood   (fide PROTABASE)
  • Medicines: folklore   (fide PROTABASE)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Congo; Gabon; Zaire
    West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo

      Cultivated:
  • AFRICA
    Western Indian Ocean: Seychelles
    Africa [tropical]

References:

  • PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
  • Burkill, H. M. 1994. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr) 2:401–402.
  • Jardin botanique national de Belgique. 1967–. Flore du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi (Flore d'Afrique centrale). (F Afr Centr)
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr) [cultivated].
More:

Check other databases for Pentadesma butyracea Sabine:

  • 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.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • 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].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?311302 (09 February 2010)

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