- 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).
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[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, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Introduced into:
Assam, Cameroon, 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 | ||||
Peru | 44455.000 | |||
Peru | 46041.000 | |||
Peru | 46076.000 | |||
Peru | 46080.000 | |||
Plowman, T. [6060], Peru | 44451.000 | |||
Plowman, T. [5830], Peru | 44535.000 | |||
Plowman, T. [5833], Peru | 46002.000 | |||
Plowman, T. [6042], Peru | 46003.000 | |||
Plowman, T. [5827], Peru | 46026.000 | |||
Glaziou, A.F.M. [9670], Brazil | K001202657 | |||
s.coll. [s.n.] | K000700870 | paratype |
First published in Encycl. 2: 393 (1786)
Accepted by
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, R.S. & Celis, M. (eds.) (2016). Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia 1-2: 1-3068. Libro impreso.
- Barooah, C. & Ahmed, I. (2014). Plant diversity of Assam. A checklist of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms: 1-599. Assam science technology and environment council, India.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
- 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.
- Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
- 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.
- Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
- 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.
- Verdcourt, B. (1984). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Erythroxylaceae: 1-10.
Literature
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/
- Kew's Economic Botany collection in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
- 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.
- 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.
- Verdcourt, B. (1984). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Erythroxylaceae: 1-10.
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