Cacao Tree

Theobroma est genus plantarum florentium in familia Malvacearum, endemicum in America australi. Genus Herrania, eadem regione endemica, Theobromati proxime stat. Species utilissima, sub climate tropico culta, est Theobroma cacao.

Index specierum

• Theobroma angustifolium
• Theobroma bernoullii
• Theobroma bicolor
• Theobroma cacao
• Theobroma cirmolinae
• Theobroma gileri
• Theobroma glaucum
• Theobroma grandiflorum
• Theobroma mammosum
• Theobroma microcarpum
• Theobroma nemorale
• Theobroma purpureum
• Theobroma simiarum
• Theobroma sinuosum
• Theobroma speciosum
• Theobroma stipulatum
• Theobroma subincanum
• Theobroma sylvestre
• Theobroma velutinum

Bibliographia

Fontes antiquiores

• Carolus Linnaeus, Species plantarum (Holmiae: impensis L. Salvii, 1753) vol. 2 p. 782 (Latine)

Eruditio recentior

• Nathaniel Bletter, Douglas C. Daly, "Cacao and its relatives in South America" in Cameron L. McNeil, ed., Chocolate in Mesoamerica: a cultural history of cacao (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006) pp. 31-68
• Barbara A. Whitlock, David A. Baum, "Phylogenetic Relationships of Theobroma and Herrania (Sterculiaceae) Based on Sequences of the Nuclear Gene Vicilin" in Systematic Botany vol. 24 (1999) pp. 128-138

Nexus externi

Vide "Theobroma" apud Vicispecies. Situs scientifici: Tropicos • GRIN • ITIS • NCBI • Biodiversity • Encyclopedia of Life • Plant Name Index • Plantes d'Afrique • Flora of China • USDA Plants Database Haec stipula ad biologiam spectat. Amplifica, si potes!