Plant Details

Accepted name:: Ocotea bullata (Burch.) Baill. [Lauraceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
black stinkwood	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012)
narkya uda	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
nukani	Other	Prices of Med. Pl. Traded in Lowveld, S Africa (Botha et al., 2007)
stinkhout	Other	Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012)
stinkwood	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
unukani	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Bark		Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)
bark		Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 7 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Laurus bullata Burch. Trav. S. Africa 1: 72 (1822).
Manglilla racemosa Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 4: 803 (1819).
Mespilodaphne bullata (Burch.) Meisn. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1): 511 (1864).
Myrsine racemosa (Roem. & Schult.) Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 176 (1841).
Oreodaphne bullata (Burch.) Nees Syst. Laur.: 449 (1836).
Quercus africana Barrow Trav. S. Africa 1: 83 (1806).
Scleroxylum racemosum Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 4: 803 (1819), pro syn.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Ocotea bullata	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Impact of Cult. of Med. Pl. on Biodiversity (Schippmann et al., 2002) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Red List Med. Pl. of S Africa (Williams et al., 2013)
Ocotea bullata (Burch.) Baill.	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Prices of Med. Pl. Traded in Lowveld, S Africa (Botha et al., 2007) Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Ocotea bullata (Burchell) E. Meyer	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Ocotea bullata E.Mey ex Meissn.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Ocotea bullata Meyen	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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