Piptadenia
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Piptadenia a genus of tropical shrubs and trees of the legume family
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Several species formerly placed in this genus (such as those used to prepare the psychotomimetic
snuffs vilca
and yopo
/parica) are now considered to be in the genus Anadenanthera
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
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Selected species
- Piptadenia gonoacantha (Mart.) J.F. Macbr.
- Piptadenia micracantha Benth.
- Piptadenia paniculata Benth.
Several species formerly placed in this genus (such as those used to prepare the psychotomimetic
Psychotomimetic
A drug with psychotomimetic actions mimics the symptoms of psychosis, including delusions and/or delirium, as opposed to just hallucinations. Some drugs of the opioid class have psychotomimetic effects, such as pentazocine and butorphanol....
snuffs vilca
Vilca
Anadenanthera colubrina is a South American tree closely related to Yopo, or Anadenanthera peregrina. It grows from 5 m to 20 m tall and the trunk is very thorny. The leaves are mimosa-like, up to 30 cm in length and they fold up at night. In Chile, A...
and yopo
Yopo
"Ebene" redirects here. For the city in Mauritius, see Ebene City.Anadenanthera peregrina, also known as Yopo, Jopo, Cohoba, Mopo, Nopo, Parica or Calcium Tree, is a perennial tree of the Anadenanthera genus native to the Caribbean and South America. It grows up to 20 m tall, having a thorny bark...
/parica) are now considered to be in the genus Anadenanthera
Anadenanthera
Anadenanthera is a genus of South American trees in the Legume family, Fabaceae. The genus contains two to four species, including A. colubrina and A. peregrina...
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Species accepted names
- Piptadenia adiantoides (Sprengel)Macbr.
- Piptadenia affinis Burkart
- Piptadenia anolidurus Barneby
- Piptadenia buchananii
- Piptadenia cuzcoensis Barneby
- Piptadenia flava (DC.)Benth.
- Piptadenia floribunda Kleinhoonte
- Piptadenia foliolosa Benth.
- Piptadenia gonoacantha (Martius)Macbr.
- Piptadenia gonoacantha (Martius)Macbr. var. gonoacantha
- Piptadenia gonoacantha (Martius)Macbr. var. inermis Burkart
- Piptadenia imatacae Barneby
- Piptadenia irwinii G.P.Lewis
- Piptadenia irwinii G.P.Lewis var. irwinii
- Piptadenia irwinii G.P.Lewis var. unijuga G.P.Lewis
- Piptadenia killipii Macbr.
- Piptadenia killipii Macbr. var. cacaophila G.P.Lewis
- Piptadenia killipii Macbr. var. killipii
- Piptadenia latifolia Benth.
- Piptadenia laxipinna B.M.Barroso
- Piptadenia leucoxylon Barneby & Grimes
- Piptadenia micracantha Benth.
- Piptadenia minutiflora Ducke
- Piptadenia obliqua (Pers.)Macbr.
- Piptadenia obliqua (Pers.)Macbr. subsp. brasiliensis G.P.Lewis
- Piptadenia obliqua (Pers.)Macbr. subsp. obliqua
- Piptadenia paniculata Benth.
- Piptadenia paniculata Benth. var. aculeata Burkart
- Piptadenia paniculata Benth. var. paniculata
- Piptadenia peruviana (Macbr.)Barneby
- Piptadenia pteroclada Benth.
- Piptadenia ramosissima Benth.
- Piptadenia robusta Pittier
- Piptadenia santosii G.P.Lewis
- Piptadenia stipulacea (Benth.)Ducke
- Piptadenia trisperma (Vell.Conc.)Benth.
- Piptadenia uaupensis Benth.
- Piptadenia uliginosa Britton & Killip
- Piptadenia viridiflora (Kunth)Benth.
- Piptadenia weberbaueriPiptadenia weberbaueriPiptadenia weberbaueri is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.It is found only in Peru.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007....
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