''Albizia inundata'' is a perennial tree native to
South America
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. Common names include ''maloxo, muqum, paloflojo, timbo blanco, timbo-ata'', and also ''"canafistula"'' though this usually refers ''
Cassia fistula
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''.
[ILDIS (2005)]
It grows to a height of up to 20 m.
[SMN (2008)] The leaves of ''Albizia inundata'' contain
dimethyltryptamine
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, a hallucinogenic drug.
[Rätsch (2004)]
Synonyms
The synonymy of this species is quite confusing; related plants have been described by various authors under the same name as ''A. inundata''.
Junior synonym
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
* In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linna ...
s of ''A. inundata'' are:
* ''Acacia inundata''
Mart.
* ''Acacia multiflora''
Spreng.
Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (3 August 1766 – 15 March 1833) was a German botanist and physician who published an influential multivolume history of medicine, ''Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde'' (1792–99 in four vo ...
:''Acacia multiflora''
Kunth. is ''
Albizia multiflora'' var. ''multiflora''
* ''Acacia polyantha''
A.Spreng.
* ''Albizia polyantha''
(A.Spreng.) G.P.Lewis
* ''Arthrosamanea polyantha''
(A.Spreng.) Burkart
* ''Arthrosamanea polycephala''
(Griseb.
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Biography
Grisebach studied at the Lyceum in Hanover, the clo ...
) Burkart
* ''Cathormion polyanthum''
(A.Spreng.) Burkart
* ''Cathormion polycephalum''
Burkart
:''Cathormion polycephalum''
(Griseb.) Burkart is ''
Albizia polycephala''
* ''Enterolobium polycephalum''
Griseb.
* ''Feuilleea polycephala''
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* ''Pithecellobium multiflorum''
(Kunth
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) Benth var. ''brevipedunculata''
Chodat & Hassl.
:''Pithecellobium multiflorum''
(Kunth) Benth is ''Albizia multiflora'' var. ''multiflora''
:''Pithecellobium multiflorum''
Merr.
Elmer Drew Merrill (October 15, 1876 – February 25, 1956) was an American botanist and taxonomist. He spent more than twenty years in the Philippines where he became a recognized authority on the flora of the Asia-Pacific region. Through ...
is ''
Archidendron merrillii''
* ''Pithecellobium pendulum''
Lindm.
Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (6 April 1856 in Halmstad – 21 June 1928) was a Swedish botanist and botanical artist, the son of Carl Christian Lindman and Sophie Fredrique Löhr. He is best known for his work "''Bilder ur Nordens Flora''" published ...
See also
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Psychedelic plants
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Psychoactivity may include sedative, stimulant, euphoric, deliriant, and hallucinogenic effects.
Several h ...
Footnotes
References
* (2005)
''Albizia berteriana'' (DC.) Fawc. & Rendle Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2008-MAR-30.
* (2004): ''Enzyklopädie der psychoaktiven Pflanzen, Botanik, Ethnopharmakologie und Anwendungen'' (7th ed.). AT Verlag.
* (2008): Provincia de Formosa - Biota
Resultados del Muestreo Observacional y Carta de Vegetación Retrieved 2008-MAR-30.
External links
*
''Albizia inundata'' Photo (Field Museum)
Dried Herbarium Specimens (Field Museum)
inundata
Trees of South America
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