Guarea guidonia (L.) Sleumer is a plant in the Meliaceae family, order Sapindales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Guarea guidonia (L.) Sleumer

Guarea guidonia (L.) Sleumer

Guarea guidonia is a flowering Meliaceae plant ranging from Cuba/Honduras to Argentina, whose bark is used as the expectorant cocillana.

Family
Genus
Guarea
Order
Sapindales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Guarea guidonia (L.) Sleumer

Guarea guidonia (L.) Sleumer is a flowering plant species that belongs to the Meliaceae family. Its distribution extends from Cuba and Honduras southward to Argentina. Guarea rusbyi (Britton) Rusby is a taxonomic synonym of Guarea guidonia (L.) Sleumer, and the bark of this plant is used as an expectorant called cocillana.

Photo: (c) Mauricio Mercadante, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Sapindales Meliaceae Guarea

More from Meliaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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