Oenocarpus bacaba Mart.

Molino, Jean-François, Sabatier, Daniel, Grenand, Pierre, Engel, Julien, Frame, Dawn, Delprete, Piero G., Fleury, Marie, Odonne, Guillaume, Davy, Damien, Lucas, Eve J. & Martin, Claire A., 2022, An annotated checklist of the tree species of French Guiana, including vernacular nomenclature, Adansonia (3) 44 (26), pp. 345-903 : 394

[153] Oenocarpus bacaba Mart.

Hist. Nat. Palm. 2 (1): 24 [Nov. 1823] (Martius 1823).

Areca bacaba Arruda, Trav. Brazil [H. Koster]: 490 (Arruda 1816), nom. nud.

Oenocarpus hoppii Burret, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 11: 1041 [20 Jan. 1934] (Burret 1934).

Oenocarpus grandis Burret, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 12: 612 [6 Dec. 1935] (Burret 1935). — Oenocarpus bacaba var. grandis (Burret) Wess.Boer , Pittieria 17: 131 (Wessels Boer 1988).

NOTES. — Hyperdominant in Amazonia ( ter Steege et al. 2020) . Incipiently domesticated by pre-Columbian Amerindians ( Clement 1999; Levis et al. 2017), and one of five species whose relative density in tree communities likely indicative of pre-Columbian archeological sites in French Guiana ( Molino et al. 2021).

VERNACULAR NAMES. — Pa: woki • Ka: kumɨn, kumu • Te: pindo uhu, wɨla’a • Wp: a’ɨ pino, pino, pino akusiway, pino e’e, pino tamanuwa • Wn: kumu • Nt: komu • Cr: komou • Br: bacaba.

HERBARIUM DATA (FG). — 21 collections at CAY. Sel. exs.: P.A. Poiteau s.n. (original material P[P00725199]).

INVENTORY DATA (FG). — 660 trees in 131 plots; Fmax = 10 %; dbhinv = 31 cm.