Taxon: Brugmansia aurea Lagerh.

Common names:

• golden angel's-trumpet   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• yellow angel's-trumpet   (Source: Trop Flow Pl ) – English
  
• goldene Engelstrompete   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• campana   (Source: Trop Flow Pl ) – Spanish
  
• culebra   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – Spanish
  
• muchira borrachero   (Source: Solan III 29.) – Spanish
  
• salamán borrachero   (Source: Solan III 29.) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Social: hallucinogen   (fide Healing Forest)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador

References:

• Brickell, C., ed. 1989. The American Horticultural Society. Encyclopaedia of garden plants. (Ency GardPl) 453. [cited as syn. of Datura aurea].
• Brummitt, R. K. 2009. Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants: 60. Taxon 58:291–292. [Committee considers that the earlier homonym B. aurea Harrison was validly published].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz. (F Veracruz) [mentions].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Llamas, K. A. 2003. Tropical flowering plants: a guide to identification and cultivation. (Trop Flow Pl)
• Schultes, R. E. & R. E. Raffauf. 1990. The healing forest: medicinal and toxic plants of the Northwest Amazonia. (Healing Forest) 419.
• Schultes, R. E. & R. F. Raffauf. 1991. Phytochemical and ethnopharmacological notes on the Solanaceae of the northwest Amazon. In: Hawkes, J. G. et al., eds., Solanaceae III: taxonomy, chemistry, evolution. (Solan III) 25–49.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Brugmansia aurea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Brugmansia aurea.

Synonyms:

• (=) Methysticodendron amesianum R. E. Schult.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Brugmansia aurea Lagerh.:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Brugmansia aurea cultivars
• 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.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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