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Taxon: Aniba rosaeodora Ducke

Genus: Aniba
Family: Lauraceae.
Nomen number: 401553
Place of publication: Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 5:109, t. 4, fig. 5. 1930
Name verified on: 24-Mar-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • Brazilian rosewood   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • rosewoodtree   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • bois de rose   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. duckei]) – French
  • Rosenholzbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. duckei]) – German
  • legno di rose   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Italian
  • pau-rosa   (Source: F Neotrop ) – Portuguese
  • palo de rosa   (Source: B. León, p.c.) – Spanish

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela - Amazonas
    Brazil: Brazil - Amazonas, Para
    Western South America: Peru - Loreto

References:

  • Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
  • Encarnación, F. 1983. Nomenclatura de las especies forestales comunes en el Perú. (Trees Peru)
  • Killeen, T. J. et al. 1993. Guia de arboles de Bolivia. (Trees Bolivia) [mentions].
  • Kubitzki, K. & S. Renner. 1982. Lauraceae I (Aniba and Alouea). In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 31:65–67.
  • León, B. 1998. pers. comm. [re. Spanish common names].
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Mors, W. T. & C. T. Rizzini. 1966. Useful plants of Brazil. (Use Pl Brazil)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm) [= A. duckei].
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Check other databases for Aniba rosaeodora Ducke:

  • 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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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?401553 (09 February 2010)

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