Plant Details

No trade or plant part information for this plant in the MPNS resource.

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

• Bactris caribaea H.Karst. Linnaea 28: 403 (1857).
• Bactris coccinea Barb.Rodr. Contr. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 4: 110 (1907).
• Bactris dahlgreniana Govaerts World Checkl. Seed Pl. 2(1): 9 (1996).
• Bactris macana (Mart.) Pittier Man. Pl. Usual. Venez.: 276 (1926).
• Bactris speciosa var. chichagui H.Karst. Linnaea 28: 402 (1857).
• Guilelma microcarpa Huber Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 6: 270 (1906).
• Guilielma caribaea (H.Karst.) H.Wendl. in O.C.E.de Kerchove de Denterghem, Palmiers: 246 (1878).
• Guilielma gasipaes var. chichagui (H.Karst.) Dahlgren Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 14: 185 (1936).
• Guilielma macana Mart. in A.D.d'Orbigny, Voy. Amér. Mér. 7(3): 74 (1844).
• Guilielma mattogrossensis Barb.Rodr. Palm. Mattogross. Nov.: 33 (1898).
• Guilielma microcarpa Huber Bol. Mus. Goeldi Hist. Nat. Ethnogr. 4: 476 (1904).

This plant has not been found explicitly cited in the medicinal literature. MPNS has included this plant because its parent species (or an infraspecies belonging to it) is recorded as medicinal.

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