Plant Details

Accepted name:: Petiveria alliacea var. tetrandra (Ortega) Hauman [Petiveriaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Petiveria alliacea L.
Infraspecies:: Petiveria alliacea var. alliacea

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
emboayembo	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
embya-yendo	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
erva de guiná	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
erva de pipi	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
erva d´alho	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
mucura-caá	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
ocoembo	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
petiveria tetrandra	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
pipi	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
tipi	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
root	vegetal drug, fluid extract, tincture	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 5 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Petiveria tetrandra Ortega Obs. Med. Bot. Pl. Bras.: 13 (1803).
Mapa graveolens Vell. Fl. Flumin.: 59 (1829).
Petiveria graveolens (Vell.) Stellfeld Tribuna Farm. 12: 114 (1944).
Petiveria hexaglochin Fisch. & C.A.Mey. Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1: 35 (1835).
Petiveria hexaglochin var. tetrandra (Ortega) J.A.Schmidt in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 14(2): 334 (1872).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Petiveria tetranda Gomes	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Petiveria tetrandra B.A.Gomes	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
Petiveria tetrandra Gom.	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)

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