Tropicos | Name - !Theobroma speciosum Willd. ex Spreng.

!Theobroma speciosum Willd. ex Spreng.

Published In: Systema Vegetabilium, editio decima sexta 3: 332. 1826. (Syst. Veg. [Sprengel])

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 7/27/2009)

Acceptance : misidentified

Original Catalogue Data (Last Modified On 7/27/2009)

Standard Note : I follow Bartley (in litt.) in referring all of the Ecuadorian material of ~Theobroma~ sect. ~Oreanthes~ to ~T. glaucum~

Reference :

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Neill, D. A. & W. A. Palacios. 1989. Arb. Amaz. Ecuatoriana 1–120. Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, Quito.
Balslev, H., J. Luteyn, B. Øllgaard & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1987. Composition and structure of adjacent unflooded and floodplain forest in Amazonian Ecuador. Opera Bot. 92: 37–57.
Cuatrecasas, J. 1956. 6. Theobroma L. In: J. F. Macbride (ed.), Flora of Peru. Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 13(3A/2): 650–660.