Elaeis oleifera is a species of palm commonly called the American oil palm . It is native to South and Central America from Honduras to northern Brazil . [2] [3] [4] [5]
Unlike its relative Elaeis guineensis , the African oil palm, it is rarely planted commercially to produce palm oil , but hybrids between the two species are, [6] mainly in efforts to provide disease resistance and to increase the proportion of unsaturated fatty acids. oil. [7]
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- Jump up^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera and Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 307, Alfonsia oleifera
- Jump up^ “Replanting diseased oil palm areas with Elaeis oleifera X E. guineensis hybrids at” La Arenosa “Estate in Colombia” . Oil Palm News . 18 : 1-8. 1974.
- Jump up^ “Variation in the total of unsaturated fatty acids in oils extracted from different oil palm germplasm, Carmen E. Chávez and Francisco Sterling, ASD Palm Oil Papers, Volume 3 pp. 5-8, 1991″(PDF) .