Erythroxylum

Taxobox
name = "Erythroxylum"


image_width = 250px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Malpighiales
familia = Erythroxylaceae
genus = "Erythroxylum"
genus_authority = P. Browne
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = About 250, including:
*"Erythroxylum amazonicum"
*"Erythroxylum areolatum"
*"Erythroxylum argentatum"
*"Erythroxylum australe" - Brigalow Erythroxylum Shrub
*"Erythroxylum brownianum"
*"Erythroxylum campestre"
*"Erythroxylum carinatus"
*"Erythroxylum cataractarum"
*"Erythroxylum catuaba" - catuaba
*"Erythroxylum citrifolium"
*"Erythroxylum coca" - coca
*"Erythroxylum cumanense"
*"Erythroxylum deciduum"
*"Erythroxylum ecarinatum" - Brown Plum
*"Erythroxylum ellipticum" - Kerosene Wood or Turpentine Tree
*"Erythroxylum fimbriatum"
*"Erythroxylum glaucum"
*"Erythroxylum gracilipes"
*"Erythroxylum hypericifolium"
*"Erythroxylum impressum"
*"Erythroxylum incrassatum"
*"Erythroxylum laurifolium"
*"Erythroxylum lucidum"
*"Erythroxylum macrocnemum"
*"Erythroxylum macrophyllum"
*"Erythroxylum mamacoca"
*"Erythroxylum monogynum"
*"Erythroxylum montanum"
*"Erythroxylum mucronatum"
*"Erythroxylum novogranatense"
*"Erythroxylum ovatum"
*"Erythroxylum panamense"
*"Erythroxylum pelleterianum"
*"Erythroxylum pulchrum"
*"Erythroxylum recurrens"
*"Erythroxylum retusum"
*"Erythroxylum rotundifolium"
*"Erythroxylum shatoni"
*"Erythroxylum steyermarkii"
*"Erythroxylum ulei"
*"Erythroxylum vacciniifolium" - catuaba
*"Erythroxylum zambesiacum"

"Erythroxylum" (="Erythroxylon") is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family Erythroxylaceae. One of the 250 species in the genus is "Erythroxylum coca", the source of the drug cocaine and the mild stimulant coca tea. [http://www.life.umd.edu/emeritus/reveal/pbio/pb450/rosi20.html] Another species, "Erythroxylum vacciniifolium" is used as an aphrodisiac in Brazilian herbal medicine.

"Erythroxylum" species are food sources for the larvae of some butterflies and moths, including "Dalcera abrasa", which has been recorded on "E. deciduum".

Photos

* [http://laniel.free.fr/INDEXES/GraphicsIndex/COCA/COCA.html 27 photos originales sur la culture de la coca dans la vallée de La Convención, province de Cuzco, Pérou]

External links

* [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?4455 GRIN Species Records of "Erythroxylum"]
* [http://sun.ars-grin.gov:8080/npgspub/xsql/duke/findsp.xsql?letter=erythroxylum&p_request=Go&amt=sc "Erythroxylum"] at Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database
* [http://users.cyberone.com.au/bwalters/rareplants/index.htm? "Australian and Worldwide Erythroxylum Species"] at Australian Rareplants Site