Elaeis oleifera

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American oil palm
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American oil palm (Elaeis oleifera)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Genus: Elaeis
Species:
E. oleifera
Binomial name
Elaeis oleifera
Synonyms [1]
  • Alfonsia oleiferaKunth
  • Corozo oleifera(Kunth) L.H.Bailey
  • Elaeis melanococcaMart. nom. illeg.
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E. oleifera inflorescence

Elaeis oleifera is a species of palm commonly called the American oil palm. It is native to South and Central America from Honduras to northern Brazil. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Unlike its relative Elaeis guineensis , the African oil palm, it is rarely planted commercially to produce palm oil, but hybrids between the two species are, [6] mainly in efforts to provide disease resistance and to increase the proportion of unsaturated fatty acids in the oil. [7]

References

  1. "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species" . Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  2. "Elaeis oleifera". Germplasm Resources Information Network . Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture . Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  3. Bailey, Liberty Hyde. 1933. Gentes Herbarum; Occasional Papers on the Kinds of Plants 3(2): 59, f. 32, 35–40, Corozo oleifera
  4. Cortés, Santiago. 1897. Flora de Colombia : comprende la geografia botanica de Colombia, las leguminosas, la flora terapiutica, 1: 203, Elaeis oleifera
  5. Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 307, Alfonsia oleifera
  6. "Replanting diseased oil palm areas with Elaeis oleifera X E. guineensis hybrids at "La Arenosa" Estate in Colombia". Oil Palm News. 18: 1–8. 1974.
  7. "Variation in the total of unsaturated fatty acids in oils extracted from different oil palm germplasms, Carmen E. Chávez and Francisco Sterling, ASD Oil Palm Papers, Volume 3 p. 5-8, 1991" (PDF).[ permanent dead link ]