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Taxon: Brosimum alicastrum Sw.

Genus: Brosimum
Family: Moraceae tribe: Dorstenieae.
Nomen number: 7895
Place of publication: Prodr. 12. 1788
Name verified on: 13-May-1994 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-Apr-1999
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions: 3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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Common names:

  • breadnut   (Source: Edible Nuts ) – English
  • breadnut   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Brosimum alicastrum subsp. alicastrum]
  • noyer à pain   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Brotnußbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • apompo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • capomo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • ojoche   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • ojoche   (Source: F CostaR ) – Spanish   [Brosimum alicastrum subsp. alicastrum]
  • ramón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • ramón   (Source: F Guat ) – Spanish   [Brosimum alicastrum subsp. alicastrum]

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Northern Mexico: Mexico - Durango, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas
    Central Mexico: Mexico - Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Veracruz
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Yucatan; Nicaragua; Panama
    Caribbean: Cuba; Jamaica
    Northern South America: Guyana; Venezuela
    Brazil: Brazil - Acre, Roraima
    Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

References:

  • Berg, C. C. 1972. Olmedieae, Brosimeae (Moraceae). In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 7:169.
  • Berg, C. C. 2001. Moreae, Arocarpeae, and Dorstenia (Moraceae) with introductions to the family and Ficus and with additions and corrections to Flora Neotropica Monograph 7. In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 83:232.
  • Burger, W. C., ed. 1971–. Flora costaricensis. (F CostaR)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz. (F Veracruz)
  • Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas. (F Guianas)
  • 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)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Rosengarten, F. 1984. The book of edible nuts. (Edible Nuts)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Brosimum alicastrum Sw.:

  • 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.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • 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?7895 (09 February 2010)

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