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Taxon: Carapa guianensis Aubl.

Genus: Carapa
Family: Meliaceae.
Nomen number: 9004
Place of publication: Hist. pl. Guiane suppl. 32, t. 387. 1775
Name verified on: 08-Nov-1994 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-2008
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • crabwood   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • andiroba   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • andiroba-saruba   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • carapa   (Source: F Neotrop 28:414.) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • iandiroba   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • iandirova   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • nandiroba   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • andiroba   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • cedro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

  • Materials: lipids; wood   (fide F Neotrop 28:414. 1981)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
    Caribbean: Cuba; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Martinique; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago
    Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
    Brazil: Brazil
    Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

References:

  • Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Pennington, T. D. & B. T. Styles. 1981. Meliaceae. In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 28:407–414.
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
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Check other databases for Carapa guianensis Aubl.:

  • 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?9004 (09 February 2010)

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