- Human food: oil/fat (fide Pl Res SEAs 1:35. 1989)
- Human food: pulse (fide Pl Res SEAs 1:35. 1989)
- Animal food: fodder (vegetative residues & pressed seed-cake following oil extraction used fide Pl Res SEAs 1:35. 1989)
- Fuels: potential as petroleum substitute/alcohol (fide http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0509-biofuels.html,)
- Materials: lipids (for industrial use, cosmetics fide PROTA4U)
- Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Vertebrate poisons: birds (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
- Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
Cultivated
Africa
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NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Chad,
Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Somalia,
Sudan
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EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya,
Tanzania,
Uganda
-
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Cameroon,
Central African Republic,
Equatorial Guinea,
Gabon
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WEST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Benin,
Burkina Faso,
Cote D'Ivoire,
Gambia,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Niger,
Nigeria,
Senegal,
Togo
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SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Angola,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe
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SOUTHERN AFRICA:
Botswana,
Namibia,
South Africa
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WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN:
Comoros,
Madagascar,
Mauritius,
Reunion,
Seychelles
Asia-Temperate
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WESTERN ASIA:
Iraq,
Turkey
-
CAUCASUS:
Armenia,
Azerbaijan,
Georgia,
Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia
[Ciscaucasia]
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MIDDLE ASIA:
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan
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MONGOLIA:
Mongolia
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CHINA:
China
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EASTERN ASIA:
Japan,
Korea,
Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India,
Nepal,
Pakistan,
Sri Lanka
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PAPUASIA:
Papua New Guinea
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INDO-CHINA:
Laos,
Myanmar,
Thailand,
Vietnam
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MALESIA:
Indonesia,
Malaysia,
Philippines
Australasia
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AUSTRALIA:
Australia
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NEW ZEALAND:
New Zealand
Europe
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EASTERN EUROPE:
Belarus,
Moldova,
Ukraine
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SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE:
Spain
Northern America
Pacific
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NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
Northern Mariana Islands
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SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
French Polynesia
[Society Islands]
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SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
Fiji,
Niue
Southern America
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CARIBBEAN:
West Indies
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CENTRAL AMERICA:
Central America
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
French Guiana
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BRAZIL:
Brazil
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Bolivia,
Colombia,
Peru
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). (PROTA4U)
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
- Butler, R. A. 2006. High oil prices fuel bioenergy push
- Euro+Med Editorial Committee Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). (EuroMed Plantbase)
- Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 (Mansf Ency)
- International Legume Database & Information Service International Legume Database and Information Service (on-line resource). (ILDIS)
- International Seed Testing Association A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982 (Mult Glossary Crops)
- Kingsbury, J. M. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. 1964 (Kingsbury)
- Krapovickas, A. & W. C. Gregory 1994. Taxonomía del género Arachis (Leguminosae) (Bonplandia) 8:147-151.
- Lee, Y. N. Flora of Korea. (F Korea)
- Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses (Pl Res SEAs) 1:35.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998 (Food Feed Crops US)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants (Kulturpflanze) 34:78
- Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
- Terrell, E. E. et al. Agric. Handb. no. 505. 1986 (AH 505)
- Walker, E. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)
Check other web resources for Arachis hypogaea L. :
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
- BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
- Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
- SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
- On-line Flora of Zimbabwe:
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=3785. Accessed 7 junio 2026.