⚠ Version 1.1 of The Plant List has been superseded and should no longer be used.

The new version is available at http://www.worldfloraonline.org/tpl/kew-44645. The new version is enhanced, using more data sources including Taxonomic Expert Networks and will be more frequently updated.

Cocos nucifera L. is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Cocos (family Arecaceae).

The record derives from WCSP (data supplied on 2012-03-23 ) which reports it as an accepted name (record 44645) with original publication details: Sp. Pl. 1188 1753.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:666160-1.

Synonyms:

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied
Calappa nucifera (L.) Kuntze	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cocos indica Royle	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cocos nana Griff.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cocos nucifera var. synphyllica Becc.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Palma cocos Mill. [Illegitimate]	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23

Earlier versions

This name was in version 1 of The Plant List, record kew-44645, and has not been changed.