Plant Details

Accepted name:: Couma utilis (Mart.) Müll.Arg. [Apocynaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
pendare	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
perillo	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
	gum	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 3 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Collophora utilis Mart. Buchn. Rep. Pharm.: ? (1828).
Couma dulcis Spruce ex Müll.Arg. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 6(1): 19 (1860).
Couma multinervis Monach. Trop. Woods 91: 39 (1947).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Couma utilis (Mart.) M.Arg.	Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000)
Couma utilis (Mart.) Muell. Arg.	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
Couma utilis (Mart.) Muell.Arg.	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
Couma utilis (Mart.) Müll.Arg.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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