Butia yatay

Butia yatay
Specimens of Butia yatay in the Parque Nacional El Palmar, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Genus: Butia
Species:
B. yatay
Binomial name
Butia yatay
(Mart.) Becc. [1916]
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Cocos yatay Mart. [1844]
  • Calappa yatay (Mart.) Kuntze [1891]
  • Syagrus yatay (Mart.) Glassman [1970]
  • Butia capitata subsp. yatay (Mart.) Herter [1940]
  • Butia missionera Deble & Marchiori [2011]
  • Butia quaraimana Deble & Marchiori [2012]

Butia yatay, the jelly palm or yatay palm,[3] is a Butia palm native to southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina.[1] It is known as the butiá-jataí in Portuguese in the south of Brazil,[4][5] as well as simply jataí or butiá.[5] It is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental in Europe and the United States.[3][6] It is the tallest of all the species in the genus Butia.[citation needed] The fruit is edible with a sweet flavour.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Flora del Conosur" (in Spanish). Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  2. ^ Govaerts, R. (2018). "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Butia yatay". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
  4. ^ Heiden, G.; Ellert-Pereira, P.E.; Eslabão, M.P. (2015). "Brazilian Flora Checklist - Butia yatay (Mart.) Becc". Butia in Lista de Espécies da Flora do Brasil, Flora do Brasil 2020 under construction (in Portuguese). Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  5. ^ a b Prieto, Pablo Viany (2 May 2012). "Centro Nacional de Conservação da Flora - CNCFlora" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  6. ^ Soares, Kelen Pureza (2015). "Le genre Butia". Principes (in French). 1: 12–57. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Parque Nacional El Palmar - Flora" (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2018.