- Family: Erythroxylaceae Kunth
- Genus: Erythroxylum P.Browne
Erythroxylum coca Lam.
- Genus: Erythroxylum P.Browne
[CPLC]
Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
- Distribution
- Nativa y cultivada en Colombia; Alt. 120 - 500 m.; Amazonia, Andes, Guayana y Serranía de La Macarena, Orinoquia, Valle del Magdalena.
- Morphology General Habit
- Arbusto
- Conservation
- No Evaluada
[UPB]
The Useful Plants of Boyacá project
- Conservation
- Not Evaluated.
- Distribution
- Native and cultivated in Colombia.
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrub.
- Ecology
- Alt. 120 - 500 m.
- Vernacular
- Epadu, patú, pa-too, coca-á, ka-heé, ipatú, huangana coca, pussachpan.
[FTEA]
Erythroxylaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1984
- Distribution
- Native of tropical S. America Both are natives of tropical S. America. Figures of these two species may be found in E.P. IV. 134, figs. 17, 18 (1907).
[UNAL]
Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/
- Vernacular
- amarga, coca, coca de danta, coca del sur, coca perua coca propia, coca suave, coca tinga, coca zambico, hayo, hayuelo, ipadá, javo, jayuelo, perua pringamaría, tinga, epadu, patú, pa,too, coca,á, ka,heé, ipatú, huangana coca, pussachpan
[UPB]
- Use Medicines Unspecified Medicinal Disorders
- Medicinal (State of the World's Plants 2016, Instituto Humboldt 2014).
- Use Social Stimulants
- Used as a stimulant (Pérez Arbeláez 1996, State of the World's Plants 2016).
[FTEA]
- Use
- A source of cocaine, has been grown in Tanzania at Amani as a hedge plant and in the plantations
Native to:
Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Introduced into:
Assam, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kazan-retto, Tanzania
- Spanish
- Coca.
Erythroxylum coca Lam. appears in other Kew resources:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16006.000 | ||||
| Plowman, T. [6060], Peru | 44451.000 | |||
| Peru | 44455.000 | |||
| Plowman, T. [5830], Peru | 44535.000 | |||
| Plowman, T. [5833], Peru | 46002.000 | |||
| Plowman, T. [6042], Peru | 46003.000 | |||
| Plowman, T. [5827], Peru | 46026.000 | |||
| Peru | 46041.000 | |||
| Peru | 46076.000 | |||
| Peru | 46080.000 | |||
| Glaziou, A.F.M. [9670], Brazil | K001202657 | |||
| s.coll. [s.n.] | K000700870 | paratype |
First published in Encycl. 2: 393 (1786)
Accepted by
- Barooah, C. & Ahmed, I. (2014). Plant diversity of Assam. A checklist of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms: 1-599. Assam science technology and environment council, India.
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, R.S. & Celis, M. (eds.) (2016). Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia 1-2: 1-3068. Libro impreso.
- Bonilla, A.G. & Fernández-Alonso, J.L. (2010). Plantas de Coca en Colombia. Discusión crítica sobre la taxonomía de las especies cultivadas del género Erythroxylum P. Browne (Erythroxylaceae) Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 34: 455-465.
- Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
- Figueiredo, E., Paiva, J., Stévart, T., Oliveira, F. & Smith, G.F. (2011). Annotated catalogue of the flowering plants of São Tomé and Príncipe Bothalia, A Journal of Botanical Research 41: 41-82.
- Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
- Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
- Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- Kobayashi, S. & Ono, M. (1987). A Revised List of Vascular Plants Indigenous and Introduced to the Bonin (Ogasawara) and the Volcano (Kazan) Islands Ogasawara Research 13: 1-55.
- Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
- Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
- Verdcourt, B. (1984). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Erythroxylaceae: 1-10.
Literature
Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
- ColPlantA (2021). "ColPlantA. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.colplanta.org/"
Useful Plants of Boyacá Project
- Bernal, R., Galeano, G., Rodríguez, A., Sarmiento, H. & Gutiérrez, M. (2017). Nombres comunes de las plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Castro, C. (Proveedor de metadatos), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). Versión 11.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
- Kew's Economic Botany collection in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Barooah, C. & Ahmed, I. (2014). Plant diversity of Assam. A checklist of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms: 1-599. Assam science technology and environment council, India.
- Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
- Figueiredo, E., Paiva, J., Stévart, T., Oliveira, F. & Smith, G.F. (2011). Annotated catalogue of the flowering plants of São Tomé and Príncipe Bothalia, A Journal of Botanical Research 41: 41-82.
- Fosberg, F.R., Sachet, M.-H., Oliver, R. (1979). A geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae Micronesica; Journal of the College of Guam 15: 41-295.
- Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
- Kobayashi, S. & Ono, M. (1987). A Revised List of Vascular Plants Indigenous and Introduced to the Bonin (Ogasawara) and the Volcano (Kazan) Islands Ogasawara Research 13: 1-55.
- Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
- Verdcourt, B. (1984). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Erythroxylaceae: 1-10.
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