Plant Details

Accepted name:: Sarcomphalus joazeiro (Mart.) Hauenschild [Rhamnaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
joazeiro	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
joá	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
jua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
juazeiro	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. for Bioprospection in a Cerrado Area, Brazil (Daiany et al., 2014) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
juá	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Med. Pl. of Sobradinho, Piauí, Brazil (Silva et al., 2015)
juá-de-espinho	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
stem		Med. Pl. of Sobradinho, Piauí, Brazil (Silva et al., 2015)
stem bark, stem inner bark, leaf		Med. Pl. for Bioprospection in a Cerrado Area, Brazil (Daiany et al., 2014)
root		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
root		Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Ziziphus joazeiro Mart. Reise Bras. 2: 581 (1828).
Ziziphus gardneri Reissek in S.L.Endlicher & E.Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. Dec.: 30 (1839).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Sarcomphalus joazeiro (Mart.) Hauenschild	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Ziziphus joazeiro C.Martius	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Ziziphus joazeiro Mart.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. for Bioprospection in a Cerrado Area, Brazil (Daiany et al., 2014) Med. Pl. of Sobradinho, Piauí, Brazil (Silva et al., 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Zizyphus joazeiro Mart.	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)

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