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Taxon: Ptychopetalum olacoides Benth.

Genus: Ptychopetalum
Family: Olacaceae tribe: Olaceae.
Nomen number: 402674
Place of publication: London J. Bot. 2:377. 1843
Name verified on: 06-Sep-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Jan-2001
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname
    Brazil: Brazil - Amapa, Amazonas, Para

References:

  • American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce. (Herbs Commerce)
  • Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2. (L Guianas ed2)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Sleumer, H. O. 1984. Olacaceae. In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 38:133.
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Check other databases for Ptychopetalum olacoides Benth.:

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images 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.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?402674 (09 February 2010)

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