| Dipteryx alata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Dipteryx |
| Species: | D. alata
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| Binomial name | |
| Dipteryx alata | |
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Dipteryx alata is a large, undomesticated, edible nut-bearing tree from dryish tropical lowlands in central South America belonging to the legume family, Fabaceae, from the Dipterygeae tribe in the Faboideae subfamily.[3] It is a wild species, widespread across the Cerrado savanna in South America.[4] The baru nut seed is a grain legume, growing in popularity in North America as a snack food.[5]
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- ^ "Dipteryx alata in Lista Vermelha da flora brasileira versão 2012.2". CNCFlora. Centro Nacional de Conservação da Flora. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ Cardoso, D.; De Queiroz, L. P.; Pennington, R. T.; De Lima, H. C.; Fonty, E.; Wojciechowski, M. F.; Lavin, M. (2012). "Revisiting the phylogeny of papilionoid legumes: New insights from comprehensively sampled early-branching lineages". American Journal of Botany. 99 (12): 1991–2013. doi:10.3732/ajb.1200380. PMID 23221500.
- ^ Tarazi, Roberto; Moreno, Maria Andréia; Gandara, Flávio Bertin; Ferraz, Elza Martins; Moraes, Mário Luiz Teixeira; Vinson, Christina Cleo; Ciampi, Ana Yamaguishi; Vencovsky, Roland; Kageyama, Paulo Yoshio (29 January 2010). "High levels of genetic differentiation and selfing in the Brazilian cerrado fruit tree Dipteryx alata Vog. (Fabaceae)". Genetics and Molecular Biology. 33 (1): 78–85. doi:10.1590/S1415-47572010005000007. PMC 3036066. PMID 21637609.
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