Plant Details

Accepted name:: Melicoccus bijugatus Jacq. [Sapindaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ackee	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
genip	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
genipe	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
guinep	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
honeyberry	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
kinep	Other	Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)
mamon	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
mamoncillo	Other	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
quenepa	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
spanish lime	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
seed, leaf		Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)
seed		Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 5 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Melicocca bijuga L. Sp. Pl., ed. 2.: 495 (1762), nom. superfl.
Melicocca bijuga f. alata Kitan. Fitologiya 11: 48 (1979).
Melicocca carpoodea Juss. Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 3: 187 (1817).
Melicoccus bijugatus f. alatus Kitan. Fitologiya 11: 48 (1979).
Stadtmannia bijuga D.Dietr. Syn. Plant. 2: 1304 (1840), nom. superfl.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Melicocca bijuga Lin.	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
Melicoccus bijuga	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Melicoccus bijuga L.	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
Melicoccus bijugatus Jacq.	Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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