''Pseudalbizzia 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
''Cassia fistula'', commonly known as golden shower, purging cassia, Indian laburnum, or pudding-pipe tree,U. S. Department of Agriculture, William Saunders; Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; ...
''.
[ILDIS (2005)]
It grows to a height of up to 20 m.
[SMN (2008)] The leaves of ''Pseudalbizzia inundata'' contain
dimethyltryptamine
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, a hallucinogenic drug.
[Rätsch (2004)]
Range
''Pseudalbizzia inundata'' ranges through Brazil to Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northern Argentina.
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Synonyms
The species was first described as ''Acacia inundata'' in 1823. In 2022 it was reclassified into the revived genus '' Pseudalbizzia''.[ The synonymy of this species can be confusing. Related plants have been described by various authors under the same name as ''Albizia 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 ''P. inundata'' are:
* ''Acacia inundata''
* ''Acacia multiflora''
* ''Acacia polyantha''
* ''Albizia inundata''
* ''Albizia polyantha''
* ''Arthrosamanea polyantha''
* ''Arthrosamanea polycephala''
* ''Cathormion polyanthum''
* ''Cathormion polycephala''
* ''Enterolobium polycephala''
* ''Feuilleea polycephala''
* ''Pithecellobium multiflorum'' var. ''brevipedunculatum''
* ''Pithecellobium pendulum''
See also
*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
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''Albizia inundata'' Photo (Field Museum)
Dried Herbarium Specimens (Field Museum)
Mimosoids
Trees of South America
Plants described in 1823
Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
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