Taxon: Attalea cohune Mart.

Common names:

• cohune palm   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• kohunepalm   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed14, as Orbignya)
  
• Human food: oil/fat   (fide L Edible Pl; Cornucopia)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide CultTropS)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras

• also cultivated

References:

• 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).
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. [= Orbignya].
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. [= Orbignya].
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Glassman, S. F. 1977. Preliminary taxonomic studies in the palm genus Orbignya Mart. Phytologia 36:97–98.
• Henderson, A. et al. 1995. Field guide to the palms of the Americas.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [= Orbignya].
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. [= Orbignya].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. [= Orbignya].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Attalea cohune.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Attalea cohune.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Attalea cohune.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Orbignya cohune (Mart.) Dahlgren ex Standl.
  (previously associated with 11 accessions)

Check other web resources for Attalea cohune Mart.:

• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• 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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