Plant Details

Accepted name:: Pouteria elegans (A.DC.) Baehni [Sapotaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
caramuri	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 17 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Chrysophyllum glaucescens Engl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 12: 521 (1890).
Chrysophyllum leptocarpum Spruce ex Miq. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 7: 106 (1863).
Franchetella crassifolia (Radlk.) Pires & W.A.Rodrigues Acta Amazonica 4(3): 16 (1974).
Guapeba crassifolia (Radlk.) Pierre Notes Bot. Sapot.: 43 (1891).
Ichthyophora leptocarpa (Miq.) Baehni Arch. Sci. 17(1): 77 (1964).
Lucuma leptocarpa (Spruce ex Miq.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. Index Kew. 2: 122 (1894).
Neoxythece elegans (A.DC.) Aubrév. Adansonia, n.s., 1: 17 (1961).
Oxythece glaucescens (Engl.) Cronquist Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 73: 310 (1946).
Oxythece leptocarpa Miq. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 7: 106 (1863).
Oxythece pseudosideroxylon Miq. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 7: 106 (1863).
Planchonella elegans (A.DC.) Baehni Arch. Sci. 18(1): 31 (1965).
Pouteria arbuscula Baehni Candollea 14: 75 (1952).
Pouteria crassifolia Radlk. Sitzungsber. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. München 12: 334 (1882).
Pouteria elegans var. typica Baehni Candollea 9: 197 (1942), not validly publ.
Sideroxylon elegans A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 8: 183 (1844).
Sideroxylon elegans var. micranthum Miq. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 7: 54 (1863).
Sideroxylon micranthum Klotzsch ex Miq. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 7: 54 (1863).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Pouteria elegans (A. DC.) Baehni	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)

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