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Petiveria alliacea

Scientific name: Petiveria alliacea L.
Botanical family: PHYTOLACCACEAE

Vernacular names

(In territories with significant traditional TRAMIL use)

Dominican Republic:

  • anamú

Colombia:

  • anamú

Panama:

  • anamú

Guatemala:

  • apacín

Haiti:

  • ave

Honduras:

  • ipacina

Dominica:

  • koujourouk

Other vernacular names

Botanical description

A weedy, deeply rooted, subherbaceous perennial 60-150 cm. high with the strong smell of garlic when broken. Leaves spirally arranged, simple, entire, oblong to elliptic, acute to acuminate at the tip, 20 x 7 cm. usually glabrous; Inflorescence a spikes up to 40 cm. long with minute hairs; 4 white perianth, becoming green in fruit; fruit an achene 6-8 mm long, flattened against the rachis of the inflorescence, developing two sharpely pointed, deflex bristles at the tip.

Voucher(s)

Jiménez,24,JBSD

Girón,184,CFEH

Gómez,140961,HUA

FLORPAN,1936,PMA

Ochoa,269,HPMHV


Pharmacopoeia

Ed.2

References

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