Tree
Cocos nucifera L.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Calappa nucifera (L.) Kuntze |
synonym | Cocos indica Royle |
synonym | Cocos mamillaris Blanco |
synonym | Cocos nana Griff. |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. alangan Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. alba Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. angustifolia Hassk. |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. aurea Auct. |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. austera Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. bego Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. buri Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. calimbahin Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. capuliformis Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. cistiformis Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. como Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. crassissima Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. delicata Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. eburnea Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. edulis Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. elongata Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. fibrosa Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. fragilis Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. humilis Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. iners Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. javanica G.V.Narayana, no Latin descr. |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. laetevirens Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. lansiformis Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. lolog Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. machaeroides Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. macrocarpa Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. maldivica Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. mamillaris (Blanco) Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. microcarpa Hassk. ex F.W.T.Hunger, nom. superfl. |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. nana (Griff.) G.V.Narayana |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. ossea Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. pinang Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. pretiosa Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. pruniformis Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. pumila Hassk. |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. regia Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. rubescens Hassk. |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. rutila Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. saccharina Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. sapida Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. spicata K.C.Jacob |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. stupposa Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. suavis Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. subamara Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. subcandida Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. synphyllica Becc. |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. tabogog Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. tamisan Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. tenuissima Blume |
synonym | Cocos nucifera var. viridis Blume |
synonym | Diplothemium henryanum F.Br. |
synonym | Palma cocos Mill., nom. superfl. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Erect trees with annular petiolar scars. Leaves pinnatisect, 4-6 m long; leaflets reduplicate, 60-100 x 2.5-5 cm, base narrow, apex tapering, acute. Spadices interfoliar, 50-100 cm long, panicled; branches to 60 cm long. Spathe 60-130 cm long, oblong, woody. Flowers monoecious, subsessile. Male flowers: often paired, to 8 mm long. Sepals c. 3 mm long, ovate. Petals 6-8 mm long, ovate, woody, yellowish-brown. Stamens 6; pistillode short, 3-fid. Female flowers 1-3 per branch, basal, globose. Perianth-lobes 6; woody; outer lobes broadly obovate, c. 2 cm across; inner lobes reniform, to 2 cm across. Ovary 3-celled; ovule 1 per cell; style short. Drupe to 30 cm long, ovoid or globose, trigonous; pericarp fibrous; endocarp stony. Seed coherent with the endocarp.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Cultivated
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Description
Global Distribution
Cultivated throughout the tropics
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Global Distribution
India: Chotta Nagpur, Assam, Western And Eastern Coast, West Bengal
Indian Distribution
Throughout Assam
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Unani
Sowa-Rigpa
Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Sowa-Rigpa, Unani, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=598
Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=598 |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Cocos nucifera L., Sp. Pl. 1188. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 482. 1893; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1557(1086). 1931; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 300. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 428. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 399. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 491. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 529. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 493. 1994; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 355. 1997; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 481. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 747. 1997; Renuka, Palms Kerala 44. 1999; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 521. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 715. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 899. 2009.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=598
Information Listing > References
- Cocos nucifera L., Sp. Pl. 1188. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 482. 1893; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1557(1086). 1931; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 300. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 428. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 399. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 491. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 529. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 493. 1994; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 355. 1997; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 481. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 747. 1997; Renuka, Palms Kerala 44. 1999; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 521. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 715. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 899. 2009.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=598
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Liliopsida |
Order | Arecales |
Family | Arecaceae |
Genus | Cocos |
Species | Cocos nucifera L. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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