Plant Details

Accepted name:: Paubrasilia echinata (Lam.) Gagnon, H.C.Lima & G.P.Lewis [Fabaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
brasileto	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
brazil wood	Other	Med. & Magic Pl. from a Market, Brazil (de Albuquerque et al., 2007)
brazilwood	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
braziwood	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
bresilja	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ibirapitanga	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
orabutã	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
palo de brazil	Other	Pl. Med. Brasil (Ribeiro Silva et al., 2001)
pau brasil	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pau de pernambuco	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pau-brasil	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pau-de-pernambuco	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pau-pernambuco	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pau-rosado	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
peachwood	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pernambuco	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pernambuco-wood	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
stem		Med. & Magic Pl. from a Market, Brazil (de Albuquerque et al., 2007)
stem bark		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
stem-bark		Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007)

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

Caesalpinia echinata Lam. Encycl. 1: 461 (1785).
Guilandina echinata (Lam.) Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 2: 327 (1825).
Caesalpinia obliqua Vogel Linnaea 11: 407 (1837).
Caesalpinia vesicaria Vell. Fl. Flumin.: 172 (1829), nom. illeg.
Caesalpinia vesicaria Lam. Encycl. 1: 461 (1785), sensu auct.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Caesalpinia echinata L.	Med. & Magic Pl. from a Market, Brazil (de Albuquerque et al., 2007)
Caesalpinia echinata Lam.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Pl. Med. Brasil (Ribeiro Silva et al., 2001) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Caesalpinia echinata Lamarck	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Guilandina echinata (Lam.)Sprengel	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Paubrasilia echinata (Lam.) Gagnon, H.C.Lima & G.P.Lewis	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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