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Taxon: Terminalia catappa L.

Genus: Terminalia
Family: Combretaceae subfamily: Combretoideae tribe: Combreteae subtribe: Terminaliinae.
Nomen number: 36334
Place of publication: Syst. nat. ed. 12, 2:674. 1767
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 07-Jun-1994 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Sep-2005
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions: 4 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions. or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.


Common names:

  • country-almond   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  • Indian-almond   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • Malabar-almond   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  • sea-almond   (Source: S. Staten, p.c.) – English
  • tropical-almond   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • badamier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • indischer Mandelbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • Katappenbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • badam   (Source: Handb Nuts ) – India
  • amendoeira-da-Índia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • amendoeira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • chapéu-de-sol   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • almendro de la India   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • tropisk mandel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China - Guangdong, Yunnan [s.e.]
    Eastern Asia: Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India
    Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Vietnam
    Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia - Northern Territory [n.e.], Queensland [n.]
  • PACIFIC
    Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Solomon Islands; Vanuatu

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized in tropics

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated in tropics

References:

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  • 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).
  • Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
  • Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
  • Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal.
  • Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
  • Carrisso, L. W. et al., eds. 1937–. Conspectus florae angolensis.
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
  • Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
  • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi. 10:168–171.
  • Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta.
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
  • Duke, J. A. 1989. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press.
  • Elevitch, C. R., ed. The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource).
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
  • Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
  • Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  • Gangopadhyay, M. & T. Chakrabarty. 1997. The family Combretaceae of Indian Subcontinent. J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 21:343.
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). 362.
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
  • Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
  • Jardin botanique national de Belgique. 1967–. Flore du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi (Flore d'Afrique centrale).
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
  • Lemmens, R. H. M. J. et al., eds. 1995. Timber trees: minor commercial timbers. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 5(2):482.
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
  • Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
  • Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
  • National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  • Pulle, A. A. et al., eds. 1932–. Flora of Suriname.
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
  • Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
  • Rosengarten, F. 1984. The book of edible nuts.
  • Srivastav, P. K. et al. 1996. Conservation of Terminalia genetic resources: the principal source of non wood forest products in India. Forest Genet. Resources 24:55.
  • Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
  • Standley, P. C. 1920. Trees and shrubs of Mexico. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 23:1-1721.
  • Standley, P. C. 1937–1939. Flora of Costa Rica.
  • Staten, S. 2006. pers. comm. [re. common names].
  • Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
  • Webster's third new international dictionary.
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Check other web resources for Terminalia catappa L.:

  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
  • 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.

Images:

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  • 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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