Plant Details

Accepted name:: Croton eluteria (L.) W.Wright [Euphorbiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
cascarilha	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
cascarilla	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
cascarilla oil	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
cascarille	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
elutheria bark	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
kaskarillabaum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kaskarillträd	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
seaside balsam	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sweet-wood bark	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
sweetwood bark oil	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
bark	dried bark	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
bark	oil	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
wood	tincture, vegetal drug, dry extract, fluid extract, powdered drug	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 16 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Croton cascarilla (L.) L. Sp. Pl., ed. 2.: 1424 (1763).
Croton eluteria Benn. J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 4: 29 (1860), nom. illeg.
Cascarilla officinalis Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 62 (1838), nom. illeg.
Clutia cascarilla L. Sp. Pl.: 1042 (1753).
Clutia decandra Crantz Inst. Rei Herb. 1: 201 (1766).
Clutia eluteria L. Sp. Pl.: 1042 (1753).
Croton cascarilla Lam. Encycl. 2: 203 (1786), sensu auct.
Croton cascarilloides Geiseler Croton. Monogr.: 8 (1807), nom. illeg.
Croton eluteria subsp. homolepidus (Müll.Arg.) Borhidi Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 69: 48 (1977).
Croton homolepidus Müll.Arg. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 15(2): 518 (1866).
Croton lamarckianus Moldenke Phytologia 1: 167 (1935), not validly publ.
Croton rosmarinifolius Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 389 (1796), nom. superfl.
Oxydectes cascarilla (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 611 (1891).
Oxydectes cascarilloides Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 610 (1891).
Oxydectes eluteria (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 611 (1891).
Oxydectes homolepida (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 612 (1891).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Croton cascarilla (L.) Bennet	Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000)
Croton cascarilla (L.) L.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Croton cascarilla Benn.	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
Croton eleuteria (L.) W.Wright	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Croton eluteria	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Croton eluteria (L.) W. Wright	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Croton eluteria (L.) W.Wright	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Croton eluteria (L.) W.wright	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Croton eluteria Benn	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
Croton eluteria Benn.	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Croton eluteria Bennet	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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