Taxon: Acca sellowiana (O. Berg) Burret

Common names:

• pineapple-guava   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Feijoa   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• feijoa   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – Portuguese
  
• goiaba-do-campo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• goiabeira-serrana   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• falso guayabo   (Source: Darwiniana ) – Spanish
  
• guayaba brasilera   (Source: Darwiniana ) – Spanish
  
• guayaba chilena   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• feijoa   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed17)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Food Feed Crops US; Cornucopia, as Feijoa sellowiana)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Minas Gerais [s.], Parana, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo
  Southern South America: Argentina - Misiones; Paraguay; Uruguay

• widely cultivated in subtropics

References:

• 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).
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2008. World checklist of Myrtaceae.
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops. [= Feijoa sellowiana (O. Berg) O. Berg].
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Kawasaki, L. 2011. Review of Myrtaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
• Keller, H. A. & S. G. Tressens. 2007. Presencia en Argentina de dos especies de uso múltiple: Acca sellowiana (Myrtaceae) y Casearia lasiophylla (Flacuortiaceae). Darwiniana 45:204–212.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Landrum, L. R. 1986. Campomanesia, Pimenta, Blepharocalyx, Legrandia, Acca, Myrrhinium, and Luma (Myrtaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 45:139.
• Landrum, L. 2011. Review of Myrtaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States.
• 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.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Acca sellowiana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Acca sellowiana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Acca sellowiana.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Feijoa sellowiana (O. Berg) O. Berg
  (previously associated with 16 accessions)
• (≡) Orthostemon sellowianus O. Berg (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Acca sellowiana (O. Berg) Burret:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• 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
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Acca sellowiana cultivars
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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