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Taxon: Platonia insignis Mart.

 
Genus: Platonia
Family: Clusiaceae (alt.Guttiferae)
Nomen number: 310496
Place of publication: Nov. gen. sp. pl. 3:169, t. 289. 1832, nom. cons.
Link to protologue:
Comment: conserved (nom. cons., Shenzhen ICN Art. 14.4 & App. IV) against the heterotypic synonym Moronobea esculenta Arruda, nom. rej.
Name Verified on: 20-Mar-2019 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Fuels: potential as biomass for energy generation
  • Human food:
  • Materials: wood (as Platonia esculenta) wood (as Platonia esculenta)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Southern America
    • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Guyana, Suriname
    • BRAZIL: Brazil [Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará]
    • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia
    • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Paraguay


References:

  1. Angely, J. A. 1965. Flora analitica do Parana.
  2. Barrie, F. R. 2006. Report of the General Committee: 9. Taxon 55:799. Note: proposal 1564 not recommended
  3. Barrie, F. R. 2011. Report of the General Committee: 11. Taxon 60:1212. Note: Committee failed to reach agreement on status of Moronobea esculenta Arruda
  4. Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature
  5. Brummitt, R. K. 2005. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 56. Taxon 54:527-528. Note: conservation proposal not recommended, but Moronobea esculenta rejected under Art. 56 instead
  6. Brummitt, R. K. 2010. Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants: 61. Taxon 59:1276. Note: Committee recommends that "Moronobea esculenta Arruda" not be considered as validly published
  7. Castro, P. et al. 2007. Opciones para la producción y uso del biodiésel en el Perú. Solucion. Pract. ITDG 51:97.
  8. Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage Note: = Platonia esculenta (Arruda) Oken
  9. Farr, E. R. et al., eds. 1979, 1986. Index nomina genericorum Note: 1979; suppl. 1986
  10. IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
  11. Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2 Note: = Platonia esculenta
  12. Personal Care Products Council. INCI
  13. Pulle, A. A. et al., eds. 1932-. Flora of Suriname.
  14. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Platonia esculenta
  15. Rickett, H. W. & F. A. Stafleu. 1959. Nomina generica conservanda et rejicienda spermatophytorum III. Taxon 8:313. Note: = Platonia esculenta (Arruda) Oken
  16. Rijckevorsel, P. van. 2002. (1564) Proposal to conserve the name Platonia insignis against Moronobea esculenta (Guttiferae). Taxon 51:813-815.
  17. Villachica, H. 1996. Frutales y hortalizas promisorios de la amazonia. Tratado de Cooperacion Amazonica. 44:50-55. Note: = Platonia esculenta (Arruda) Oken
  18. Wilson, K. L. 2017. Report of the General Committee: 17. Taxon 66:478. Note: proposal1564 recommended

Check other web resources for Platonia insignis Mart. :

  • Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
  • New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas 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.
  • PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=310496. Accessed 3 July 2024.