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Arachis hypogaea

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Identification
Arachis hypogaea
Related name
  • Arachis hypogaea
Common name
  • ma-, (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • mankoli (JB) (SENEGAL, BADYARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • o-tika (JB) (SENEGAL, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • mangara (Koelle fide Pasch) su u (JB) suk su (JB) (SENEGAL, BALANTA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • mâkara (K&A) mãnkara (JB) (ε -, ba- bέtέr (Ferry fide Pasch; FG&G), CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • arachide; pistache de terre; cacahuète (Berhaut); cacahouète (Berhaut); rufisque (common thin-shelled commercial form); arachide du Cayor (small-fruited, thin-shelled commercial forms in Senegambia, A Chevalier)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • (Senegal) l’gerté (JB) (SENEGAL, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • badâgot (K&A (ε -, ba- bέtέr (Ferry fide Pasch; FG&G), DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • ground-nut; peanut; monkey nut; earthnut., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for ARACHIS hypogaea L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT
Names
ARACHIS hypogaea L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Sp. Pl.: 741 (1753); Bak. in F.T.A. 2: 158 (1871); Harms in V.E. 3 (1), fig. 301 (1915); L.T.A.: 322 (1929); A. Chev. in Rev. Bot. Appl. 13: 689 (1933); Hoehne in Fl. Brasilíca 25 (II; 122): 18 (1940); U.O.P.Z.: 129 (1949); J. Léon, in F.C.B. 5: 351 (1954); Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 576 (1958); J. Meikle in Rhod. Agric. Journ. 62: 109–113 (1965); Purseglove, Trop. Crops 1: 225, fig. 34 (1968). Type: “Brazil and Peru”; a specimen grown in Hort. Upsala, specimen 909.1 (LINN, syn.)
Information
Annual erect or straggling herb ± 30 cm. long. Stems at first pilose, later glabrescent. Leaves 4-foliolate; leaflets obovate or elliptic, 1–7 cm. long, 0.7–3.2 cm. wide, rounded or emarginate and mucronate at the apex, narrowly rounded to the base, glabrous, or sparsely pilose beneath, ciliate; free part of petiole 1.5–7 cm. long; petiolules 1–2 mm. long; stipules 1.5– 4 cm. long; free part linear-lanceolate, very acute, 0.6–3.2 cm. long, ciliate. Flowers axillary, apparently solitary and stalked; primary bracts ovate-lanceolate, 1–1.4 cm. long, 4–5 mm. wide, biapiculate; secondary bracts similar but bifid. Receptacle 0.2–4 cm. long, pilose. Corolla yellow, mostly with red nerves, 0.7–1.3 cm. long. Stamens 8–9. Pods 2–6 cm. long, 1–1.5 cm. wide, the gynophore becoming 1–20 cm. long. Seeds irregularly ovoid, 1–2 cm. long and ± two-thirds the length in diameter. Fig. 63, p. 441.
Range
DISTR. U1, 4; T1, 3, 4, 7, 8; Z; probably originally native to Brazil, but now very widely cultivated throughout the tropics and extensively in certain parts of East Africa, particularly the Lake Province of Tanganyika (Bukoba, etc.) and Tabora District; the attempts to cultivate the plant as a very major production undertaking at Kongwa (T5) and Nachingwea (T8) failed
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Tanga District near Amboni, Mabokweni, 20 Sept. 1918, Peter 48212 !TANGANYIKA Kigoma District W. of Uvinza, 1142 km. on Central Line railway, 6 Feb. 1926, Peter 36396 !TANGANYIKA Tabora District S. of Tabora, Kwihala, 21 Jan. 1926, Peter 45956 !UGANDA Karamoja District near Nabilatuk, 23 June 1956, Dyson-Hudson 51 !UGANDA Mengo District Kipayo, Jan. 1914, Dummer 581 !ZANZIBAR Zanzibar I., Zingwe-Zingwe, 21 Jan. 1929, Greenway 1105! & without locality, July 1874, Hildebrandt 1331 !

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