cultivar was based on mass selection over 5 years, followed by evaluation of environmental adaptation in pure stands and in mixed pastures in the western Brazilian Amazon. During the evaluation process, selection was performed to improve speed of establishment, dry matter yield, nutritive value and seed production. Evaluations also occurred under rotational grazing in mixed pastures with Cynodon nlemfuensis, Brachiaria brizantha and B. humidicola, in intensive systems. The new cultivar was registered with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil in 2008 and its protection process was finalized in 2011, after conducting tests for distinctness, homogeneity and stability. While developing the cultivar, the semi-mechanized seed production system of forage peanut was also established (Assis et al. 2011) .