Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dipteryx odorata (Aubl.) Forsyth f. [Fabaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
coumaron	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
coumarou	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
cumaru	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
cumaru de cheiro	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
cumaru de folha grande	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
cumaru-de-cheiro	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
cumaru-do-amazonas	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
cumaru-verdadeiro	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
cumarurana	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
cumaruzeiro	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
dipteryx odorata whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
dutch tonka	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
dutch tonka bean	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016)
dutch tonka-bean	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
fava de tonka	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
fava tonka	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
faveira de cheiro	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
fève tonka	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000)
haba tonka	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
imburana de cheiro	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
sarrapia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
tonga-bean	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
tongo	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
tongo bean	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
tonka	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
tonka bean	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
tonka siri	Other	Med. Pl. Trade in Suriname (van Andel et al., 2007)
tonka-bean	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
tonkabohne	Other	Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
tonkabohnenbaum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
tonkaböna	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
tonquin bean	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
uchi	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
seeds		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000)
seeds		Med. Pl. Trade in Suriname (van Andel et al., 2007)
seed		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 6 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Baryosma tongo Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 73, t. 93 (1790).
Coumarouna odorata Aubl. Hist. Pl. Guiane 2: 740 (1775).
Coumarouna odorata var. tetraphylla (Spruce ex Benth.) Ducke Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 4: 322 (1925).
Coumarouna tetraphylla (Spruce ex Benth.) Taub. Bot. Centralbl. 47: 389 (1891).
Dipteryx tetraphylla Spruce ex Benth. J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 4(Suppl.): 125 (1860).
Heinzia peregrina J.F.Gmel. Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 609 (1791).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dipteryx odorata	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Med. Pl. and Extracts Market News Service (Brinkmann et al., 2009) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Dipteryx odorata (Aubl.) Forsyth f.	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Dipteryx odorata (Aubl.) Willd.	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. Trade in Suriname (van Andel et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Dipteryx odorata (Aubl.)Willd.	Comm. Med. Pl. Harvesting, Suriname (van Andel & Havinga, 2008) Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
Dipteryx odorata (Aubl.)willd.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Dipteryx odorata (Aublet) Willd.	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000)
Dipteryx odorata Willd.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
Dipteryx odorata Willdenow	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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