Taxon: Argania spinosa (L.) Skeels

• the 19 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• argantree   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• goat-tree   (Source: Carole Ritchie [pers. comm., 2006]) – English
  
• aranier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• bois de fer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Arganbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• ardjan   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Morocco
  
• argán   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: agroforestry   (fide Agroforestry 6:11. 1994)
  
• Human food: oil/fat   (fide C. R. Ritchie, pers. comm. 2006)
  
• Materials: lipids   (for cosmetics fide C. R. Ritchie, pers. comm. 2006)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide C. R. Ritchie, pers. comm. 2006)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
• EUROPE
  Southwestern Europe: Spain [s.]

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Morocco; Tunisia [s.]

References:

• Agroforest. Today 6:11. [mentions].
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2001. World checklist and bibliography of Sapotaceae.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Pennington, T. D. 1991. The genera of the Sapotaceae.
• 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.
• Ritchie, C. R. 2007. pers. comm. [re. common names].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Argania spinosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Argania spinosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Argania spinosa.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Argania sideroxylon Roem. & Schult.
  (previously associated with 12 accessions)
• (≡) Sideroxylon spinosum L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Argania spinosa (L.) Skeels:

• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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