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Taxon: Myrciaria dubia (Kunth) McVaugh

Genus: Myrciaria
Family: Myrtaceae subfamily: Myrtoideae tribe: Myrteae.
Nomen number: 401456
Place of publication: Fieldiana, Bot. 29:501. 1963
Name verified on: 16-Mar-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 16-Mar-1995
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • camu-camu   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • arazá-de-água   (Source: CoopAmaz ) – Portuguese

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Northern South America: Venezuela - Amazonas, Bolivar
    Brazil: Brazil - Amazonas, Para, Rondonia
    Western South America: Colombia [e.]; Peru - Loreto [e.], Ucayali

References:

  • Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • IPGRI. New World Fruits Database - on-line resource. (New World Fruits)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • McVaugh, R. 1969. The botany of the Guayana Highland - Part VIII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 18(2):232.
  • Villachica, H. 1996. El cultivo del camu camu en la amazonia peruana. In: Secretaria Pro-Tempore, Tratado de Cooperacion Amazonica. (CoopAmaz) 46:1–95.
  • Villachica, H. 1996. Frutales y hortalizas promisorias de la amazonia. In: Secretaria Pro-Tempore, Tratado de Cooperacion Amazonica. (CoopAmaz) 44:75–83.
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Check other databases for Myrciaria dubia (Kunth) McVaugh:

  • 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
  • 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.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • 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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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?401456 (09 February 2010)

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