Plant Details

Accepted name:: Copaifera officinalis L. [Fabaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aceite	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
aracaibo copaiba	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
baume de copahu	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
bois de sang	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bálsamo de copaíba	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
cabima	Other	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
copahu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
copaiba	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
copaiba balsam	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
copaibabaum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
copalba	Other	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
copayer	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
copayero	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kopaiva	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
venezuela copaiba	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
gum		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
oleoresin		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
	essential oil, balsam	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 4 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Copaiba officinalis (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 172 (1891).
Copaifera jacquiniana G.Don Gen. Hist. 2: 455 (1832), orth. var.
Copaifera jacquinii Desf. Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 376 (1821), nom. superfl.
Copaiva officinalis (L.) Jacq. Enum. Syst. Pl.: 21 (1760).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Copaiba officinalis (L.) Kuntze	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
Copaifera officinalis	Med. Pl. and Extracts Market News Service (Brinkmann et al., 2009)
Copaifera officinalis (Jacq.) L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Copaifera officinalis L.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Copaifera officinalis Lin.	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)

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