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Internal ID UUID643ff75bbf7d4426702399
Scientific name Brahea dulcis
Authority Mart.
First published in Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 244 (1838)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Thrinax tunica hort. ex Hook.f. Rep. Progr. Condition Roy. Gard. Kew 1882: 64 (1884)
Acoelorraphe schippii (Burret) Dahlgr. Publ. Field Columb. Mus., Bot. Ser. 14: 9 (1936)
Brahea bella L.H.Bailey Gentes Herbarum vi. 194 (1943).
Brahea berlandieri Bartlett Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 461: 31 (1935)
Brahea conzattii Bartlett Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 461: 30 (1935)
Brahea dulcis var. montereyensis (Becc.) Becc. Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 13: 403 1931
Brahea schippii Burret Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 12: 304 (1935)
Brahea dulcis f. humilis Miranda Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 12: 590 (1941)
Brahea edulis var. montereyensis Becc. Webbia 2: 99. 1907
Corypha dulcis Kunth Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 300 (1816)
Corypha frigida Mohl ex Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 244. 1839 (1839)
Livistona occidentalis Hook.f. Rep. Progr. Condition Roy. Gard. Kew 1882: 64 (1884)
Brahea frigida Devansaye Rev. Hort. (Paris) 47: 32 (1875)
Copernicia depressa Liebm. ex Dalgren Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 14: t. 170 (1959)

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Language Common/alternative name
English apak palm
English sweet brahea palm
English sweet hesper palm
English sweet rock palm
English sombrero palm
English blue rock palm
Spanish capulín
Spanish soyate
Spanish suyate

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World Flora Online wfo-0000390644
Tropicos 2400273
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:664900-1
The Plant List kew-24014
Open Tree Of Life 822884
NCBI Taxonomy 292683
IUCN Red List 55948562
iNaturalist 206949
GBIF 2736812
EPPO EYHSA
EOL 1121033
USDA GRIN 7619
IPNI 664900-1
Wikipedia Brahea_dulcis

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Palm Sunday in central Mexico: among sellers, palms and syncretism Briseño-Tellez JM, Pulido Silva MT, Bautista K, García Mera A, Larios-Lozano O, López Gutiérrez BN, López López YA, Mendoza Cruz Y, Monzalvo R, Ortega-Meza D, Sánchez Trejo EC, Zepeda-Hernández ZK J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 03-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10239146
doi:10.1186/s13002-023-00587-3
PMID:37268987
Ethnobotanical biocultural diversity by rural communities in the Cuatrociénegas Valley, Coahuila; Mexico Estrada-Castillón E, Villarreal-Quintanilla JÁ, Encina-Domínguez JA, Jurado-Ybarra E, Cuéllar-Rodríguez LG, Garza-Zambrano P, Arévalo-Sierra JR, Cantú-Ayala CM, Himmelsbach W, Salinas-Rodríguez MM, Gutiérrez-Santillán TV J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 29-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8008621
doi:10.1186/s13002-021-00445-0
PMID:33781298
Patterns of Bird Diversity and Endemism Along an Elevational Gradient in the Southern Mexican Highlands Alvarez-Alvarez EA, Rodríguez-Godínez R, Sierra-Morales P, Medina-Valdivia SA, Vázquez-Salgado E, Brito-Millán M, Almazán-Núñez RC Zool Stud 15-Dec-2020
PMCID:PMC8231403
doi:10.6620/ZS.2020.59-69
PMID:34221145
Native trees of Mexico: diversity, distribution, uses and conservation Tellez O, Mattana E, Diazgranados M, Kühn N, Castillo-Lorenzo E, Lira R, Montes-Leyva L, Rodriguez I, Flores Ortiz CM, Way M, Dávila P, Ulian T PeerJ 18-Sep-2020
PMCID:PMC7505059
doi:10.7717/peerj.9898
PMID:32999763
Novel subpopulations in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) identified by population-wide organellar genome sequencing Mohamoud YA, Mathew LS, Torres MF, Younuskunju S, Krueger R, Suhre K, Malek JA BMC Genomics 17-Jun-2019
PMCID:PMC6580582
doi:10.1186/s12864-019-5834-7
PMID:31208317
Ethnobotany of Mexican and northern Central American cycads (Zamiaceae) Bonta M, Pulido-Silva MT, Diego-Vargas T, Vite-Reyes A, Vovides AP, Cibrián-Jaramillo A J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 18-Jan-2019
PMCID:PMC6339304
doi:10.1186/s13002-018-0282-z
PMID:30658655
Chronic leaf harvesting reduces reproductive success of a tropical dry forest palm in northern Mexico Lopez-Toledo L, Perez-Decelis A, Macedo-Santana F, Cuevas E, Endress BA PLoS One 18-Oct-2018
PMCID:PMC6193635
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0205178
PMID:30335793
Genus-wide sequencing supports a two-locus model for sex-determination in Phoenix Torres MF, Mathew LS, Ahmed I, Al-Azwani IK, Krueger R, Rivera-Nuñez D, Mohamoud YA, Clark AG, Suhre K, Malek JA Nat Commun 28-Sep-2018
PMCID:PMC6162277
doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06375-y
PMID:30266991
First Guatemalan record of natural hybridisation between Neotropical species of the Lady’s Slipper orchid (Orchidaceae, Cypripedioideae) Szlachetko DL, Kolanowska M, Muller F, Vannini J, Rojek J, Górniak M PeerJ 22-Dec-2017
PMCID:PMC5742529
doi:10.7717/peerj.4162
PMID:29302391
Sociocultural and ecological factors influencing management of edible and non-edible plants: the case of Ixcatlán, Mexico Rangel-Landa S, Casas A, García-Frapolli E, Lira R J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 30-Oct-2017
PMCID:PMC5663152
doi:10.1186/s13002-017-0185-4
PMID:29084561
Traditional knowledge and use of wild mushrooms by Mixtecs or Ñuu savi, the people of the rain, from Southeastern Mexico Santiago FH, Moreno JP, Cázares BX, Suárez JJ, Trejo EO, de Oca GM, Aguilar ID J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 05-Sep-2016
PMCID:PMC5011354
doi:10.1186/s13002-016-0108-9
PMID:27595599
Ixcatec ethnoecology: plant management and biocultural heritage in Oaxaca, Mexico Rangel-Landa S, Casas A, Rivera-Lozoya E, Torres-García I, Vallejo-Ramos M J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 20-Jul-2016
PMCID:PMC4955254
doi:10.1186/s13002-016-0101-3
PMID:27439512
Wild edible plant knowledge, distribution and transmission: a case study of the Achí Mayans of Guatemala Turreira-García N, Theilade I, Meilby H, Sørensen M J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 16-Jun-2015
PMCID:PMC4474567
doi:10.1186/s13002-015-0024-4
PMID:26077151
Ethnoecology of the palm Brahea dulcis (Kunth) Mart. in central Mexico Pulido MT, Coronel-Ortega M J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 05-Jan-2015
PMCID:PMC4506432
doi:10.1186/1746-4269-11-1
PMID:25559394
Distribution, abundance and traditional management of Agave potatorum in the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico: bases for sustainable use of non-timber forest products Delgado-Lemus A, Casas A, Téllez O J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 03-Sep-2014
PMCID:PMC4237816
doi:10.1186/1746-4269-10-63
PMID:25185769

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