Taxon: Carludovica palmata Ruiz & Pav.

Common names:

• bombonaje   (Source: Names Soukup )
  
• carludovique palmée   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• chidra   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• jipijapa   (Source: Websters Dict )
  
• palma de sombrero   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• palma jipijapa   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Panama-hat-palm   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Panamapalme   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• toquilla   (Source: Pl Book )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Materials: cane; fiber   (leaves used for hats, coarser material for basketry, matting, and roofing fide Dict Econ Pl)
  

Distributional range:

Native:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Panama
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru

Other:

• probably naturalized in Mexico & West Indies

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)
• Harling, G. 1958. Monograph of the Cyclanthaceae. Acta Horti Berg. 18:128–131.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75. (L Ecuador)
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. (Names Soukup)
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl)
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Carludovica palmata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Carludovica palmata. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Carludovica palmata Ruiz & Pav.:

• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• 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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