Cola nitida
Cola nitida

Taxonavigation

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Taxonavigation: Malvales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Malvales

Familia: Malvaceae
Subfamilia: Sterculioideae
Genus: Cola
Species: Cola nitida

Name

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Cola nitida (Vent.) Schott & Endl., 1832

Synonyms

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  • Homotypic
    • Bichea nitida (Vent.) Farw. in Amer. J. Pharm. 94: 428 (1922)
    • Braxipis nitida (Vent.) Raf. in Sylva Tellur.: 72 (1838)
    • Sterculia nitida Vent. in Jard. Malmaison: t. 91 (1805)
  • Heterotypic
    • Cola acuminata var. latifolia K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler, Monogr. Afrik. Pflanzen-Fam. 5: 127 (1900)
    • Cola alba A.Chev. in Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci. 150: 624 (1910)
    • Cola astrophora Warb. in Tropenpflanzer 6: 627 (1902)
    • Cola vera K.Schum. in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 3: 15 (1902)
    • Sterculia cola Pers. in Syn. Pl. 2: 239 (1806)

Distribution

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Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Africa
    • Regional: Western Africa
      • Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Zaïre
    • Introduced into:
      • Central African Repu, Comoros, Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Sri Lanka, Trinidad-Tobago, Vietnam, Windward Is.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

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Vernacular names

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azərbaycanca: Parlaq kola
eʋegbe: Goroti
English: kola nut, cola, kola, bitter kola
euskara: Kola
français: Cola vrai, goro
polski: Kola błyszcząca
Türkçe: Kola ağacı
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