Plant Details

Accepted name:: Oreopanax capitatus (Jacq.) Decne. & Planch. [Araliaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
woman back	Other	Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011)
woman wood	Other	Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011)
wood root	Other	Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
wood (bark)		Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 18 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Oreopanax liebmannii Marchal Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Belgique, sér. 2, 47: 87 (1879).
Aralia capitata Jacq. Enum. Syst. Pl.: 18 (1760).
Aralia longifolia Sessé & Moc. Fl. Mexic., ed. 2: 80 (1894).
Aralia multiflora Pohl ex DC. Prodr. 4: 262 (1830), pro syn.
Aralia ovata Sessé & Moc. Fl. Mexic., ed. 2: 79 (1894).
Botryodendrum capitatum (Jacq.) Endl. Cat. Horti Vindob. 2: 177 (1842).
Hedera capitata (Jacq.) Sm. Icon. Pict. Pl. Rar. 1: t. 4 (1790).
Hedera frondosa Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 144 (1796).
Hedera multiflora DC. Prodr. 4: 262 (1830).
Mesopanax capitatus (Jacq.) R.Vig. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 9, 4: 104 (1906).
Mesopanax liebmannii (Marchal) R.Vig. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 9, 4: 104 (1906).
Oreopanax capitatus var. minor Steyerm. Fieldiana, Bot. 28: 442 (1952).
Oreopanax capitatus var. multiflorus (DC.) Marchal in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 11(1): 253 (1878).
Oreopanax capitatus f. scandens Marchal Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 30(1): 281 (1891).
Oreopanax destructor Seem. J. Bot. 7: 351 (1869).
Oreopanax meiocephalus Donn.Sm. Bot. Gaz. 37: 210 (1904).
Oreopanax microcephalus Harms Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20: 68 (1894).
Sciodaphyllum capitatum (Jacq.) Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. I.: 306 (1860).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Oreopanax capitatum Decaisne et Planchon	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Oreopanax capitatus	Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011)
Oreopanax capitatus (Jacq.) Decne & Planch.	Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011)
Oreopanax capitatus (Jacq.) Decne. & Planch.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Oreopanax liebmanni	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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