⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

This name is in version 1.1 of The Plant List, record kew-2519807, with some changes.

Theobroma cacao L. is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Theobroma (family Malvaceae).

The record derives from WCSP (in review) which reports it as an accepted name with original publication details: Sp. Pl. 782 1753.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:320783-2.

Synonyms:

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cacao minar Gaertn.	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Cacao minus Gaertn.	Synonym		TRO
Cacao sativa Aubl.	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Cacao theobroma Tussac	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma cacao f. leiocarpum (Bernoulli) Ducke	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma cacao subsp. leiocarpum (Bernoulli) Cuatrec.	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma cacao var. leiocarpum (Bernoulli) Cif.	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma cacao subsp. sativa (Aubl.) León	Synonym		TRO
Theobroma cacao var. typica Cif.	Synonym		TRO
Theobroma caribaea Sweet	Synonym		TRO
Theobroma integerrima Stokes	Synonym		TRO
Theobroma kalagua De Wild.	Synonym		TRO
Theobroma leiocarpum Bernoulli	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma pentagonum Bernoulli	Synonym		TRO
Theobroma saltzmanniana Bernoulli	Synonym		TRO
Theobroma sapidum Pittier	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma sativa (Aubl.) Lign. & Le Bey	Synonym		TRO
Theobroma sativa var. leucosperma A. Chev.	Synonym		TRO
Theobroma sativa var. melanosperma A. Chev.	Synonym		TRO
Theobroma sativum (Aubl.) Lign. & Bey	Synonym		WCSP (in review)