? Erythroxylum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Malpighiales Family: Erythroxylaceae Genus: Erythroxylum P. Browne
Species
about 250, including: Erythroxylum amazonicum Erythroxylum areolatum Erythroxylum argentatum Erythroxylum australe Erythroxylum brownianum Erythroxylum campestre Erythroxylum cataractarum Erythroxylum catuaba - catuaba Erythroxylum citrifolium Erythroxylum coca - coca Erythroxylum cumanense Erythroxylum deciduum Erythroxylum ellipticum Erythroxylum fimbriatum Erythroxylum glaucum Erythroxylum gracilipes Erythroxylum hypericifolium Erythroxylum impressum Erythroxylum incrassatum Erythroxylum laurifolium Erythroxylum lucidum Erythroxylum macrocnemum Erythroxylum macrophyllum Erythroxylum mamacoca Erythroxylum monogynum Erythroxylum montanum Erythroxylum mucronatum Erythroxylum novogranatense Erythroxylum ovatum Erythroxylum panamense Erythroxylum pelleterianum Erythroxylum pulchrum Erythroxylum recurrens Erythroxylum retusum Erythroxylum rotundifolium Erythroxylum shatoni Erythroxylum steyermarkii Erythroxylum ulei Erythroxylum vacciniifolium Erythroxylum zambesiacum

Erythroxylum (=Erythroxylon) is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family Erythroxylaceae. One of the 250 species in the genus is Erythroxylum coca, the source of the drug cocaine. Another species, Erythroxylum catuaba is used as an aphrodisiac in Brazilian herbal medicine. Image File history File links Erythroxylum coca - US DEA photo [1] File links The following pages link to this file: Coca ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Family Achariaceae Family Balanopaceae Family Bonnetiaceae Family Caryocaraceae Family Chrysobalanaceae Family Clusiaceae Family Ctenolophonaceae Family Dichapetalaceae Family Elatinaceae Family Erythryloxaceae (coca family) Family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) Family Euphroniaceae Family Goupiaceae Family Humiriaceae Family Hypericaceae (St Johns wort family) Family Irvingiaceae Family Ixonanthaceae Family Lacistemaceae Family Linaceae (flax family... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ... The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... This article is about the drug Cocaine. ... An aphrodisiac is an agent which causes the arousal of sexual desire. ... The term Herbalism refers to folk and traditional medicinal practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. ...

External links

• GRIN Species Records of Erythroxylum
• Erythroxylum at Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database