Attalea cohune
| Cohune Palm | |
|---|---|
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Subfamily: | Arecoideae |
| Tribe: | Cocoseae |
| Subtribe: | Attaleinae[1] |
| Genus: | Attalea |
| Species: | A. cohune |
| Binomial name | |
| Attalea cohune Mart. | |
Attalea cohune, commonly known as the cohune palm (also rain tree, American oil palm, corozo palm or manaca palm),[2] is a species of palm tree native to Mexico and parts of Central America.[3]
The cohune palm is used in the production of cohune oil.
Example occurrences
A chief occurrence as a dominant plant is in the Belizean pine forests ecoregion.[4]
References
- ↑ Dransfield, John; Natalie W. Uhl; Conny B. Asmussen; William J. Baker; Madeline M. Harley; Carl E. Lewis (2005). "A New Phylogenetic Classification of the Palm Family, Arecaceae". Kew Bulletin 60 (4): 559–69. JSTOR 25070242.
- ↑ Cohune palm at Floridata
- ↑ "Attalea cohune". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
- ↑ C. Michael Hogan & World Wildlife Fund. 2012. Belizean pine forests. ed. M. McGinley. Encyclopedia of Earth. Washington DC
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