Caryocar brasiliense

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Internal ID UUID644029e996ab7903759081
Scientific name Caryocar brasiliense
Authority Cambess.
First published in Fl. Bras. Merid. 1: 322 (1828)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Acantacaryx pinguis Arruda ex H.Kost. Trav. Brazil : 491 (1816)

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Language Common/alternative name
English pequi
Spanish pequi
Spanish aceite de pequi
Arabic كاريوكار برازيلي
bpy পেকুই
Esperanto kariokarujo
Esperanto kariokaro
Persian پیکویی
French péqui
Japanese ペキフルーツ
Japanese ブラジルではセハードと呼ばれる地域が存在します。こちらはペキと呼ばれるフルーツで、セハードが存在するミナス州やゴイヤス州で採れる非常に貴重なフルーツです。 本来栽培はされないため極めて限られた地域でしか食べられません、そのためブラジルの方であっても食べたことがないという方が沢山いらっしゃるほどです。 ぜひご賞味下さい。by empório iracema
koi Пекуи
kv Пекуи
lbe Пекуи
mrj Пекуи
Portuguese pequi (fruto)
Portuguese pequi
Portuguese piquiá
Portuguese pequi, o fruto do cerrado
Portuguese pequí
Russian Пекуи
udm Пекуи
Ukrainian Пекі
Chinese 巴西油桃木果

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Caryocar brasiliense subsp. brasiliense Unknown
Caryocar brasiliense subsp. intermedium (Wittm.) Prance & M.F.Silva Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 12: 26 (1973)

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- Native
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil South
      • Brazil Southeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Southern South America
      • Paraguay
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000808012
UNII X33MP159ZS
USDA Plants CABR36
Tropicos 6200020
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:828593-1
The Plant List kew-34625
Open Tree Of Life 743911
NCBI Taxonomy 480971
IUCN Red List 144313008
IPNI 828593-1
iNaturalist 464113
GBIF 3189663
Freebase /m/0bbj78
EPPO CYOBR
EOL 392753
USDA GRIN 100466
Wikipedia Caryocar_brasiliense
PFAF Caryocar brasiliense

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_004918865.1 Cbr_v1.0 Scaffold Universidade Federal de Goias - UFG 2019-04-26 40 202.34 Mb

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Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Untangling biodiversity interactions: A meta network on pollination in Earth's most diverse tropical savanna Aguiar LM, Diniz UM, Bueno‐Rocha ID, Filomeno LR, Aguiar‐Machado LS, Gomes PA, Togni PH Ecol Evol 11-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10928258
doi:10.1002/ece3.11094
PMID:38476698
Amazonian useful plants described in the book “Le Pays des Amazones” (1885) of the Brazilian propagandist Baron de Santa-Anna Nery: a historical and ethnobotanical perspective Silva LN, Oliveira EC, Baratto LC J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 26-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10897987
doi:10.1186/s13002-024-00663-2
PMID:38409064
Citizen science data on urban forageable plants: a case study in Brazil Soares FM, Ferreira Pires L, Garcia MC, Coradin L, Ghilardi-Lopes NP, Silva RR, de Carvalho AM, Gavai A, Bouzembrak Y, Maculan BC, Koffler S, Montedo UB, Drucker DP, Santiago R, de Carvalho MC, Lima AC, Gabriel HD, de França SG, de Almeida KR, dos Santos BJ, Saraiva AM GigaByte 21-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10905257
doi:10.46471/gigabyte.107
PMID:38434929
Knowledge and perception of milk producers about thermal stress in Brazilian dairy farms Brettas PK, Nascimento FG, Guimarães EC, Faria PN, Ferreira AV, Nascimento MR Heliyon 17-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10884848
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26115
PMID:38404894
Near extinct Argyreia versicolor and rare Argyreia mekongensis are dependent on carpenter bee pollinators Jirabanjongjit A, Traiperm P, Rattanamanee C, Stewart AB AoB Plants 17-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10862652
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plae001
PMID:38352178
Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Pequi Oil (Caryocar brasiliense): A Systematic Review Silva VR, Pinheiro AC, Ombredane AS, Martins NO, Luz GV, Carneiro ML, Joanitti GA Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 21-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10821120
doi:10.3390/ph17010011
PMID:38275996
Exotic fruits patents trends: An overview based on technological prospection with a focus on Amazonian Rodrigues LD, Nunes DD, Hodel KV, Viana JD, Silva EP, Soares MB Heliyon 04-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10686867
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e22060
PMID:38046170
New Therapeutic Strategies for Obesity and Its Metabolic Sequelae: Brazilian Cerrado as a Unique Biome Monteiro-Alfredo T, Macedo ML, de Picoli Souza K, Matafome P Int J Mol Sci 25-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10648839
doi:10.3390/ijms242115588
PMID:37958572
Patterns of use of wild food plants by Brazilian local communities: systematic review and meta-analysis Gomes LC, Medeiros PM, Prata AP J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 25-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10601232
doi:10.1186/s13002-023-00619-y
PMID:37880767
Stand Up to Stand Out: Natural Dietary Polyphenols Curcumin, Resveratrol, and Gossypol as Potential Therapeutic Candidates against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection Wang Z, Song XQ, Xu W, Lei S, Zhang H, Yang L Nutrients 06-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10535599
doi:10.3390/nu15183885
PMID:37764669
An improved folate stable isotope dilution assay of unexploited food sources from Brazil Obermaier L, da Mata BP, Perego CH, Sivieri K, Salgaço MK, dos Santos AG, Boehni R, Groehn V, Knapp JP, Rychlik M Front Nutr 05-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10508286
doi:10.3389/fnut.2023.1252497
PMID:37731402
Maternal rat prenatal and neonatal treatment with pequi pulp reduces anxiety and lipid peroxidation in brain tissue of rat offspring at adolescence da Costa Silva Kindelan S, Queiroz MP, Barbosa MQ, Viera VB, Guerra GC, Fernandes de Souza Araújo D, Jacielly dos Santos J, Lucia de Azevedo Oliveira M, Milhomens Ferreira Melo PC, Rufino Freitas JC, Gomes Dutra LM, Frazão Tavares de Melo MF, Barbosa Soares JK Heliyon 03-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10559064
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19757
PMID:37809698
TeloBase: a community-curated database of telomere sequences across the tree of life Lyčka M, Bubeník M, Závodník M, Peska V, Fajkus P, Demko M, Fajkus J, Fojtová M Nucleic Acids Res 21-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10767889
doi:10.1093/nar/gkad672
PMID:37602392
Anemochorous and zoochorous seeds of trees from the Brazilian savannas differ in fatty acid content and composition Franco AC, de Melo RB, Ferreira CS, Williams TC AoB Plants 17-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10433789
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plad042
PMID:37600502
Forecasting study of food-related patents protected by the University of Brasilia, Brazil: Case study Neves RF, Chiarello MD, Lima LA, Ghesti GF Heliyon 08-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10361330
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17111
PMID:37484324

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