Plant Details

Accepted name:: Terminalia tetraphylla (Aubl.) Gere & Boatwr. [Combretaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
arara	Other	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
caicaro	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
caicaró	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 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 15 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Buchenavia capitata (Vahl) Eichler Flora 49: 165 (1866).
Buchenavia tetraphylla (Aubl.) R.A.Howard J. Arnold Arbor. 64: 266 (1983).
Bucida angustifolia Spruce ex Eichler in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 14(2): 96 (1867), not validly publ.
Buchenavia ptariensis Steyerm. Fieldiana, Bot. 28: 423 (1952).
Buchenavia vaupesana Cuatrec. Fieldiana, Bot. 27(1): 108 (1950).
Bucida capitata Vahl Eclog. Amer. 1: 50 (1797).
Cordia tetraphylla Aubl. Hist. Pl. Guiane 1: 224 (1775).
Firensia lutea Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 40 (1838), nom. superfl.
Gerascanthus tetraphyllus (Aubl.) Borhidi Acta Bot. Hung. 34: 402 (1988).
Hudsonia arborea Lunan Hort. Jamaic. 2: 310 (1814).
Lithocardium tetraphyllum (Aubl.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 977 (1891).
Pseudolmedia bucidifolia Bello Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 12: 109 (1883).
Terminalia capitata C.Wright Anales Acad. Ci. Méd. Habana 5: 409 (1869).
Terminalia hilariana Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 668 (1841), nom. superfl.
Terminalia obovata Cambess. in A.F.C.P.de Saint-Hilaire & al., Fl. Bras. Merid. 2: 241 (1830).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Buchenavia capitata (Vahl)Eichler	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Buchenavia tetraphylla (Aubl.) R.A.Howard	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
Bucida angustifolia	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
Terminalia tetraphylla (Aubl.) Gere & Boatwr.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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