     
Taxon: Tamarindus indica L.
Genus: Tamarindus
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Caesalpinioideae tribe: Detarieae. Also placed in:
Caesalpiniaceae
Nomen number: 36219
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:34. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 29-Jan-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 31-Jul-1996
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions:
18 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
- Indian tamarind (Source: Pl Res SEAs
) – English
- kilytree (Source: Bot Mag
14:235. 1997) – English
- tamarind (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- tamarin (Source: Trop Leg
) – French
- tamarindier (Source: Trop Leg
) – French
- tamarinier (Source: Trop Leg
) – French
- Tamarinde (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
- Tamarindenbaum (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- tamarindeiro (Source: Leg WorldEc
) – Portuguese
- tâmara-da-Índia (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- tamarinda (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- tamarindo (Source: B. León, p.c.) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- tamarindo-do-Egito (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- tamarino (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- tamarindo (Source: B. León, p.c.) – Spanish
- tamarind (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
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Native:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Cape Verde
Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan; Yemen - Socotra
East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Zaire
West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
Cultivated:
- 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).
- Arechavaleta, M. et al., eds.
2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
- Aubréville, A. et al., eds.
1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
- Aubréville, A. et al., eds.
1963–. Flore du Cameroun.
- Boutelje, J. B.
1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
- Du Puy, D.
1997. The Leguminosae of Madagascar.
Bot. Mag.
14:235–237.
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- Duke, J. A.
1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Hackett, C. & J. Carolane.
1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
- Isely, D.
1975. Leguminosae of the United States: II. Subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
Mem. New York Bot. Gard.
25(2):181.
- Kunkel, G.
1984. Plants for human consumption.
- León, B.
1995. pers. comm.
[re. Portuguese (Brazil) common names].
- León, B.
2009. 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.
484.
- Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson.
1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist.
- Lock, J. M.
1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
- Luna, R. K.
1996. Plantation trees.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- McVaugh, R.
1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
- National Academy of Sciences.
1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
- National Research Council.
2008. Fruits.
In: National Research Council, Lost crops of Africa.
3:149–163.
- 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.
- Reichel, S.
1998. pers. comm.
[re. German common names].
- Smith, A. C.
1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
- Smith, R. J.
Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
- Verdcourt, B.
1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes.
- Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds.
1991. Edible fruits and nuts.
In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
2:298.
- Wood, J. R. I.
1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
- Yaacob, O. & S. Subhadrabandhu.
1995. The production of economic fruits in South-East Asia.
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Check other web resources for Tamarindus indica L.:
Images or nodulation data:
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- 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.
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
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?36219 (22 May 2013)
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