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Vitellaria paradoxa

species of plant
Class type of: useful plant Q1348567

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
taxon
Subclass of
useful plant[6]
Short name
V. paradoxa[10]
IUCN conservation status
vulnerable[3]
Parent taxon
Vitellaria[4]
Taxon common name
shea butter, Nkuto, Karitébaum, shea tree, Voipuu, Shea Butter Tree, Karité, 牛油果, Tama[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
Taxon name
Vitellaria paradoxa[5]
Taxon rank
species[2]
Taxon synonym
Butyrospermum parkii[7]
This taxon is source of
shea wood, shea butter[8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en shea tree en Shea butter tree en Vitellaria paradoxa en vitellaria en shi tree ar شية ar شجرة الشية cs máslovník africký cs Vitellaria paradoxa da Vitellaria paradoxa da smørtræ de Sheanußbaum de Vitellaria paradoxa de Afrikanischer Butterbaum de Karité de Karitébaum de Schibutterbaum de Sheanussbaum el καριτέ es karite
🔖 Identifiers · 39
Library of Congress authority ID
sh89001665
GND ID
4125964-6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Vitellaria paradoxa MS 6563.JPG ↗
ARKive ID (archived)
vitellaria-paradoxa, shea-butter-tree/vitellaria-paradoxa
African Plant Database ID
177599
BNCF Thesaurus ID
798
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12014391k
Biota of New Zealand ID
320fae6f-803f-4d02-9b46-0873c1a0c3ae
Catalogue of Life ID
5BKVQ
Dewey Decimal Classification
583.674, 634.973674
EPPO Code
VILPA
Ecocrop ID
10862
Show all 39 identifiers +27
Encyclopedia of Life ID
1149436
Freebase ID
/m/01pk6r
GBIF taxon ID
2886750
GRIN URL
npgsweb.ars-grin.gov
GenBank assembly accession number
GCA_019916065.1
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
smørtre_-_Vittelaria_paradoxa, smørtre_-_Butyrospermum_parkii
INaturalist taxon ID
444757
IPNI plant ID
790034-1
IRMNG ID
10251059
ITIS TSN
505960
IUCN taxon ID
37083
NALT ID
58617, 62986
NCBI taxonomy ID
292385
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007541887905171
Open Tree of Life ID
194532
PM20 ware ID
142221
Plant List ID (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
kew-213267
Plants of the World Online ID
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:790034-1
Topic's main category
Category:Vitellaria paradoxa
Tropicos ID
50053507
UBio ID
471658
UMLS CUI
C1682088
UNII
3E76221P8W
USDA PLANTS ID
VIPA12
WCSPF ID
213267
World Flora Online ID
wfo-0000332885
Yale LUX ID
concept/b268f2b7-9e2d-410e-b95b-fc74e805a5f3

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🔗 Connections
← Found in taxon 2
lanosterol, lupeol
← Has host 2
Cirina forda, Cirina butyrospermi
IUCN conservation status 1
vulnerable
Instance of 1
taxon
Subclass of 1
useful plant
Taxon rank 1
species
This taxon is source of 1
shea butter
← FactGrid item ID 1
Boelenslaan
← Natural product of taxon 1
shea butter
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Summary

Vitellaria paradoxa is a taxon[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . A dataset on catalogue of alien plants in China. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 27d ago · ~2026-54099-48 · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 48
    Taxon common name → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'shea butter'}, {'lang': 'ak', 'text': 'Nkuto'}, {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Karitébaum'} +6
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'bm', 'ca', 'ceb', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'dag', 'de', 'din', 'en',
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon common name: Tama"
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