Erythroxylum coca Lam.

First published in Encycl. 2: 393 (1786)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. South America. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as a stimulant and a medicine, has environmental uses and social uses and for food.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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

Distribution
Nativa y cultivada en Colombia; Alt. 120 - 500 m.; Amazonia, Andes, Guayana y Serranía de La Macarena, Orinoquia, Valle del Magdalena.
Morphology General Habit
Arbusto
Conservation
No Evaluada
[CPLC]

The Useful Plants of Boyacá project

Conservation
Not Evaluated.
Distribution
Native and cultivated in Colombia.
Morphology General Habit
Shrub.
Ecology
Alt. 120 - 500 m.
Vernacular
Epadu, patú, pa-too, coca-á, ka-heé, ipatú, huangana coca, pussachpan.
[UPB]

Erythroxylaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1984

Distribution
Native of tropical S. America Both are natives of tropical S. America. Figures of these two species may be found in E.P. IV. 134, figs. 17, 18 (1907).
[FTEA]

Distribution
Biogeografic region: Amazonia, Andean, Guiana Shield, Orinoquia. Elevation range: 120–500 m a.s.l. Cultivated in Colombia. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Amazonas, Antioquia, Arauca, Boyacá, Caquetá, Casanare, Cesar, Córdoba, Cundinamarca, Guainía, Guaviare, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Santander, Tolima, Vaupés, Vichada.
Habit
Shrub.
Conservation
National Red List of Colombia (2021): Potential LC.
Ecology
Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: forest and woodland, shrubland, native grassland, artificial - terrestrial.
Vernacular
Coca, Coca-á, Epadu, Huangana coca, Ipatú, Ka-heé, Pa-too, Patú, Pussachpan
[UPFC]

Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/

Vernacular
amarga, coca, coca de danta, coca del sur, coca peruana, coca propia, coca suave, coca tinga, coca zambico, hayo, hayuelo, ipadá, javo, jayuelo, peruana, pringamaría, tinga
[UNAL]

Uses

Use Medicines Unspecified Medicinal Disorders
Medicinal (State of the World's Plants 2016, Instituto Humboldt 2014).
Use Social Stimulants
Used as a stimulant (Pérez Arbeláez 1996, State of the World's Plants 2016).
[UPB]

Use
A source of cocaine, has been grown in Tanzania at Amani as a hedge plant and in the plantations
[FTEA]

Use Environmental
Environmental uses.
Use Food
Used for food.
Use Materials
Used as material.
Use Medicines
Medical uses.
Use Social
Social uses.
[UPFC]

Common Names

Spanish
Coca.

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