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Shea tree

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001665
info:lc/authorities/sh89001665
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh89001665#concept

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Variants

Bassia parkii
Butyrospermum paradoxum
Butyrospermum parkii
Karite
Karité tree
Kariti
Shea
Shea butter tree
Shea butterseed tree

Broader Terms

Butyrospermum

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

Karité
Karité-Pflanze
shea
Shea tree
Vitellaria paradoxa
Vitellaria paradoxa Label from public data source Wikidata

Sources

found: Work cat.: Niess, T. Angepasste Technologie für Dorffrauen, c1986(Karité-Baum)

found: Web. 3(karite or kariti, shea tree; shea butter tree or shea; shea tree; Butyrospermum parkii)

found: SPN(Butyrospermum parki, shea butterseed)

found: Howes. A dict. of useful ... plants(shea butter; B. paradoxum; syn: B. parkii)

found: Roecklein. A Profile of econ. plants:p. 115 (shea-butter, butterseed, B. paradoxum, shea-butter tree)

found: FAO plant and plant products(B. parkii; syn: Bassia parkii, shea tree, shea butter tree)

found: Terrell. A check. of names for 3,000 vasc. plants. of econ. import.(B. paradoxum= Vitellaria paradoxa; B. parkii (G. Don)= V. paradoxa (shea butter, butterseed))

LC Classification

QK495.S2

Change Notes

1989-03-15: new

1989-05-09: revised

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