Taxon profile

species

Cacao
Theobroma cacao L.

kingdom Plantae - plants » divisio Magnoliophyta - flowering plants » class Rosopsida - eudicots » order Malvales » family Malvaceae » genus Theobroma - theobroma

Other names

= Chocolate Tree

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fruit

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Author: Lubomír Prause

Intertaxon relationships

consumer: Acalolepta mixta (Hope, 1841), Tmesisternus schaumii yorkensis (Fairmaire, 1881), Coptops aedificator (Fabricius, 1792) - Albizia Long-horned Beetle, Phrynetoides regius (Aurivillius, 1886), Nyoma flavoapicalis (Lepesme & Breuning, 1953), ...

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Included taxa

Number of records: 7

group Theobroma cacao "Criollo"

group Theobroma cacao "Forastero"

group Theobroma cacao "Trinitario"

Unplaced taxa

form Theobroma cacao f. cacao

form Theobroma cacao f. lacadonense

form Theobroma cacao f. leiocarpum

form Theobroma cacao f. pentagonum

Links and literature

PLANTS Database [THCA]

PLANTS Database [http://plants.usda.gov]

C. Ulloa et al. (2017): An integrated assessment of the vascular plant species of the Americas, Science. 358. 1614-1617 [as Theobroma cacao L.]
Data retrieved on: 25 September 2019

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