Plant Details

Accepted name:: Parkinsonia praecox (Ruiz & Pav.) Hawkins [Fabaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
brea	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
brea del bordo	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
manteco	Other	Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001)
palo ver	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
bark, branches, root bark	dried branches	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Caesalpinia praecox Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruv. 4: t. 376 (1821).
Cercidium praecox (Ruiz & Pav.) Harms Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 91 (1908).
Caesalpinia brea Gillies ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 247 (1840).
Cercidium goldmanii Rose Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 8: 301 (1905).
Cercidium plurifoliolatum Micheli Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 34: 269 (1903).
Cercidium spinosum Tul. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 4: 134 (1844).
Cercidium unijugum Rose Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 8: 301 (1905).
Cercidium viride (H.Karst.) H.Karst. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 8: 346 (1887).
Rhetinophloeum viride H.Karst. Fl. Columb. 2: 25 (1862).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Caesalpinia praecox Ruiz. & Pav.	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Cercididium praecox (Ruiz & Pavón) Harms	Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001)
Cercidium praecox	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Cercidium praecox (Ruiz & Pav. ex Hook.) Harms subsp. praecox	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
Parkinsonia praecox (Ruiz & Pav.) Hawkins	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. & Fungi Project (2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Parkinsonia praecox (Ruiz & Pav.) J. Hawkins	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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