Coriaria ruscifolia L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 1037 (1753)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is New Guinea to S. Pacific, Mexico to SW. Argentina. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the temperate biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as a poison and a medicine, has social uses and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Fiji, Guatemala, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Guinea, Panamá, Peru, Samoa, Society Is., Solomon Is., Vanuatu, Venezuela

Classification

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PAFTOL

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.
  • Welsh, S.L. (1998). Flora Societensis: 1-420. E.P.S. Inc. Utah.
  • Whistler, W.A. (2022). Flora of Samoa Flowering Plants: 1-930. National Tropical Botanicl Garden. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Galvis-Rueda, M., Morales, M.E. (2010). Páramos de Boyacá, Flora representativa. (1st ed.). Tunja Corporación Autónoma Regional de Boyacá.
  • Kew's Economic Botany collection in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
  • Welsh, S.L. (1998). Flora Societensis: 1-420. E.P.S. Inc. Utah.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Cámara-Leret, R., & Dennehy, Z. (2019). Information gaps in indigenous and local knowledge for science-policy assessments. Nature Sustainability 2:736-741.
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Travers, L. [s.n.] New Zealand K003357670 Yes
Tothill, B.H. [582] Fiji K003357779 Yes
MacGillivray, J. [s.n.] New Zealand K003357659 Yes
Flynn, T.; Wood, K.R.; Tabua, M.; Johnson, M. [8607] Samoa K003357784 Yes
Whitmee, S.J. [41] Samoa K003357789 Yes
Hooker, W.J. [s.n.] New Zealand K003357664 Yes
Koroiveiban, D. [13099] Fiji K003357783 Yes
Gillison, A.N.; Beveridge, A.E. [RSNH3519] Vanuatu K003357767 Yes
Pennington, T.D.; Reynel, C.; Daza, A. [17285] Peru K003357822 Yes
Florence, J. [2956] French Polynesia K003357790 Yes
Burgers, C.J. [s.n.] K003357674 Yes
Smith, A.C. [4342] Fiji K003357780 Yes
Cunningham, R. [s.n.] New Zealand K003357663 Yes
Quayle, E.H. [53] French Polynesia K003357793 Yes
Wheatley, J.I. [697] Vanuatu K003357764 Yes
Florence, J. [3944] French Polynesia K003357791 Yes
Pennington, T.D.; Reynel, C.; Daza, A. [17285] Peru K003357823 Yes
Oliver, W.R.B. [s.n.] K003357658 Yes
Smith, A.C. [907] Fiji K003357782 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K003357673 Yes
K:SPC-65469.000 No
Hooker, J.D. [s.n.] New Zealand K003357665 Yes
Bourdy, G. [98] Vanuatu K003357762 Yes
Raynal, J. [RSNH16334] Vanuatu K003357765 Yes
Hooker, J.D. [s.n.] New Zealand K003357661 Yes
Cabalion, P. [2805] Vanuatu K003357763 Yes
Buchtien, O. [29485] Chile K003357926 Yes
Mossman, S. [s.n.] New Zealand K003357676 Yes
[Hector] [s.n.] New Zealand K003357668 Yes
Milne HMS. Herald [55] K003357657 Yes
Alfaro, E. [537] Costa Rica K003357818 Yes
im Thurn, E. [68] Fiji K003357774 Yes
[Havers] [49] K003357669 Yes
Tothill, B.H. [582] Fiji K003357773 Yes
Mckee, H.S. [RSNH24164] Vanuatu K003357769 Yes
Santesson, R. [1071] Chile K003357927 Yes
[Winifred Teulon] [581] Fiji K003357778 Yes
Morrison, A. [s.n.] Vanuatu K003357770 Yes
Horne, J. [769] Fiji K003357775 Yes
Sledge, W.A. [481] New Zealand K003357662 Yes
[Logan] [s.n.] New Zealand K003357660 Yes
Burgers, C.J. [s.n.] K003357672 Yes
Chew Wee-Lek [RSNH223] Vanuatu K003357768 Yes
Greenwood, W. [123] Fiji K003357776 Yes
Greenwood, W. [123] Fiji K003357777 Yes
Franquemont, C.; Franquemont, E.; Sallo, G. [205] Peru K003357878 Yes
Bernardi, L. [10625] Costa Rica K003357819 Yes
St. John, H.; Fosberg, F.R. [16984] French Polynesia K003357794 Yes
Whistler, W.A. [W2569] Samoa K003357787 Yes
s.coll. [RSNH3519] Vanuatu K003357766 Yes
Monteagudo, A.; Arteaga, J.; Peña, A.; Mateo, J.L. [14167] Peru K003357821 Yes
Comins, R.B. [278] Vanuatu K003357772 Yes
Cheeseman, T.F. [s.n.] New Zealand K003357666 Yes
Burgers, C.J. [s.n.] New Zealand K003357675 Yes
Christophersen, E. [783] Samoa K003357788 Yes
Wood, D.V.S. [189] New Zealand K003357671 Yes
Smith, A.C. [6021] Fiji K003357781 Yes
Whistler, W.A. [W2488] Samoa K003357786 Yes
Morrison, A. [s.n.] Vanuatu K003357771 Yes
Whistler, W.A. [8892] Samoa K003357785 Yes
Cunningham, A.; Cunningham, R. [581] New Zealand K003357667 Yes
Grant, M.L. [3771] French Polynesia K003357792 Yes

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