Plant Details

Accepted name:: Copernicia prunifera (Mill.) H.E.Moore [Arecaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
brazilian wax palm	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
caranda	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
carandá	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
carnauba	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
carnauba palm	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
carnauba wax	Other	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
carnauba wax palm	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
carnauba-wax palm	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
carnaubeira	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
carnaúba	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
carnuba wax	Other	British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
cera carnauba	Pharmaceutical	European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
karnaubapalm	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
karnaubapalme	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
wax palm	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
カルナウバロウ	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaf	wax	British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
leaf		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
leaf	wax obtained from the leaves	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
leaf buds, leaves		Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
leaves		U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
leaves		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
leaf	wax	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008)
leaf	wax	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
leaf	wax	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008)
leaf	wax	European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007)
leaf	wax	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006)
root, wax	vegetal drug, dry extract, fluid extract	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
root		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
root		Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007)
leaf	wax	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
leaf	wax	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
leaf	Purified wax obtained from the leaves	European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
leaf	wax obtained from the leaves	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013)
leaves	wax	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 4 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Copernicia cerifera (Arruda) Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 242 (1838).
Corypha cerifera Arruda in H.Koster, Trav. Brazil: 494 (1816).
Palma prunifera Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 7 (1768).
Arrudaria cerifera (Arruda) Macedo Not. Palm. Carnauba: 5 (1867).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Copernicia cereferia (Arruda) Mart.	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
Copernicia cerifera	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Copernicia cerifera (Arruda) Mart	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
Copernicia cerifera (Arruda)Mart.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Copernicia cerifera Mart	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
Copernicia cerifera Mart.	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
Copernicia cerifera Martius	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Copernicia prunifera	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Copernicia prunifera (Mill.) H. E. Moore	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Copernicia prunifera (Mill.) H.E. Moore	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Copernicia prunifera (Mill.) H.E.Moore	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Copernicia prunifera (Mill.) H.Moore	Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000)
Copernicia prunifera (Mill.)h. E. Moore	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Copernicia prunifera (Miller)H.E.Moore	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Copernicia prunifera H.E. Moore	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Corypha cerifera Arruda	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Palma prunifera Miller	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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