Taxon: Arachis hypogaea L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Arachis hypogaea subsp. fastigiata (359 accessions)
• Arachis hypogaea subsp. fastigiata var. aequatoriana (62 accessions)
• Arachis hypogaea subsp. fastigiata var. fastigiata (1147 accessions)
• Arachis hypogaea subsp. fastigiata var. peruviana (23 accessions)
• Arachis hypogaea subsp. fastigiata var. vulgaris (128 accessions)
• Arachis hypogaea subsp. hypogaea (145 accessions)
• Arachis hypogaea subsp. hypogaea var. hirsuta (30 accessions)
• Arachis hypogaea subsp. hypogaea var. hypogaea (531 accessions)

Common names:

• amendoim   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• arachide   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• avellana americana   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• cacahuète   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• cacahuete   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• caranga   (Source: PROTABASE )
  
• Erdnuß   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• goober   (Source: AH 505 )
  
• groundnut   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• karanga   (Source: PROTABASE )
  
• maní   (Source: Bonplandia 8:147.)
  
• mandobi   (Source: PROTABASE )
  
• mjugu nyasa   (Source: PROTABASE )
  
• mnjugu nyasa   (Source: PROTABASE )
  
• peanut   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• pistache de terre   (Source: PROTABASE )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: oil/fat; pulse   (fide Pl Res SEAs 1:35. 1989)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (vegetative residues & pressed seed-cake following oil extraction used fide Pl Res SEAs 1:35. 1989)
  
• Fuels: potential as petroleum substitute/alcohol   (fide web document)
  
• Materials: lipids   (for industrial use, cosmetics fide PROTABASE)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: birds; mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Arachis hypogaea from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• only cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• 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)
• Hermann, F. J. 1954. A synopsis of the genus Arachis. Agric. Monogr. U.S.D.A. 19:13.
• Krapovickas, A. & V. A. Rigoni. 1960. Revista Invest. Agríc. 14:221–227.
• Krapovickas, A. & W. C. Gregory. 1994. Taxonomía del género Arachis (Leguminosae). Bonplandia 8:147.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 1:35.
• 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)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Raina, S. N. et al. 2001. RAPD and ISSR fingerprints as useful genetic markers for analysis of genetic diversity, varietal identification, and phylogenetic relationships in peanut (Arachis hypogaea) cultivars and wild species. Genome 44:763–772.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Resslar, P. M. 1980. A review of the nomenclature of the genus Arachis L. Euphytica 29:815.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Arachis hypogaea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Arachis hypogaea. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Arachis hypogaea f. nambyquarae (Hoehne) F. J. Herm. [= Arachis hypogaea subsp. hypogaea var. hypogaea]
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• Arachis hypogaea var. nambyquarae (Hoehne) Burkart [= Arachis hypogaea subsp. hypogaea var. hypogaea]
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• Arachis nambyquarae Hoehne [= Arachis hypogaea subsp. hypogaea var. hypogaea]
  (previously associated with 8 accessions)
• Arachis rasteiro A. Chev. [= Arachis hypogaea subsp. hypogaea]
  

Check other databases for Arachis hypogaea L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• 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.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

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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