Acrocomia totai Mart.

Totai­Palm, mbocaya, corozo, coco [W]

[3]

VERNACULAR NAME[3]

GENUS [A]Acrocomia

SUB-FAMILY [N]Arecoideae

TRIBE [N]Cocoseae

SUB-TRIBE [N]Bactridinae

PUBLICATION [A]

A.D.d'Orbigny, Voy. Amér. Mér. 7(3): 78 (1844)

CONSERVATION STATUS [W]

CONSERVATION STATUS [W]

 BIOLOGY [C][3]

 Distribution [C][3]

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Paraguay, Brazil South, Bolivia, Brazil West-Central

 USES [W]

 SYNONYMS [C]

 

 CULTIVATION

Cold Hardiness Zone (USDA) 9b

GROWTH RATE

MINIMUM TEMPERATURE

exposure

MAX HEIGHT

Acrocomia totai is the most cold resistent of all Acrocomias , tolerating frost without damage. 

 BIBLIOGRAPHY & SOURCES

[3] Lorenzi, H., Noblick, L.R., Kahn, F. & Ferreira, E. (2010). Brazilian Flora Arecaceae (Palms): 1-268. Instituto Plantarum de Estudos da Flora LTDA, São Paulo, Brazil.
[3] Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
[3] Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne. 

[A] Palmweb - Palms of the World Online - http://www.palmweb.org

[C] WCSP 2013. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ Retrieved 2011 onwards

[N] The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

[W] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrocomia

eMonocot: http://e-monocot.org/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:taxon:2607

The World Checklist of Monocotyledons: http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

IUCN Red List: http://discover.iucnredlist.org

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