Plant Details

Accepted name:: Ephedra antisyphilitica Berland. ex C.A.Mey. [Ephedraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
cañatilla	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
clapweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
joint-fir	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
popote	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
teopopote	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
whorehouse tea	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 3 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Ephedra antisyphilitica var. brachycarpa Cory Rhodora 40: 218 (1938).
Ephedra texana E.L.Reed Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 62: 43 (1935).
Ephedra occidentalis Torr. ex Parl. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(1): 354 (1869).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Ephedra antisyphilitica	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Ephedra antisyphilitica Berl. ex C. A. Mey.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Ephedra antisyphilitica Berl. ex C.A.Mey.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Ephedra antisyphilitica Berland. ex C. A. Mey.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Ephedra antisyphilitica Berland. ex C.A.Mey.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Ephedra antisyphilitica Berlandier ex C.A. Meyer	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Ephedra antisyphilitica C.Meyer	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Ephedra antisyphilitica C.Meyer brachycarpa Cory	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Ephedra texana E.Reed	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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