''Psychotria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the familyRubiaceae. It contains 1,582 species and is therefore one of the largest genera of flowering plants. The genus has a pantropical distribution and members of the genus are small understoreytrees in tropical forests. Some species are endangered or facing
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
ion due to deforestation, especially species of central Africa and the Pacific.
Many species, including ''
Psychotria viridis
''Psychotria viridis'', also known as ''chacruna'', ''chacrona'', or ''chaqruy'' in the Quechua languages, is a perennial, shrubby flowering plant in the coffee family Rubiaceae. It is a close relative of '' Psychotria carthagenensis'' (a.k.a. ' ...
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psychedelic
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Psychotria abdita
''Psychotria abdita'' is a plant species in the family Rubiaceae and the genus '' Psychotria''. The species is endemic to Peru, and the species was identified by Paul Carpenter Standley
Paul Carpenter Standley (March 21, 1884 – June 2, ...
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Psychotria acutiflora
''Psychotria acutiflora'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is Endemism, endemic to Ecuador.
References
Flora of Ecuador
Psychotria, acutiflora
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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Psychotria bimbiensis
''Psychotria bimbiensis'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also termed hab ...
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Psychotria bryonicola
''Psychotria bryonicola'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles ...
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Psychotria camerunensis
''Psychotria camerunensis'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threaten ...
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Psychotria capensis
''Psychotria capensis'', the bird-berry, is a southern African evergreen shrub or small tree. It belongs to a genus which is used medicinally in many regions, 'Psychotria' being from the Greek for 'rejuvenating', in reference to the healing prope ...
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Psychotria carronis
''Psychotria carronis'', commonly known as the black grape, is a flowering plant in the coffee family. The specific epithet honours William Carron (1823–1876) who collected plants on Lord Howe Island for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
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Psychotria carthagenensis
''Psychotria carthagenensis'', also known as amyruca, is a South American rainforest understory shrub from the coffee family, Rubiaceae. It grows from the tropics of South America to Mexico.
Unlike other Psychotria species, it has been found ...
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Psychotria cathetoneura
''Psychotria cathetoneura'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; ...
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Psychotria cernua
''Eumachia lepiniana'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a shrub or tree endemic to the island of Tahiti in the Society Islands of French Polynesia
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Psychotria chalconeura
''Psychotria chalconeura'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest
A forest is an area of land do ...
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Psychotria chimboracensis
''Psychotria chimboracensis'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
References
Flora of Ecuador
chimboracensis
Near threatened plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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Psychotria colorata
''Psychotria colorata'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It has been documented in an ethnobotanical context among the Ka'apor people of Maranhão, Brazil by Dr. William Balée, the Tulane University anthropologist and historical e ...
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Psychotria congesta
''Psychotria congesta'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles a ...
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Psychotria cookei
''Psychotria cookei'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a shrub endemic to the island of Raiatea in the Society Islands of French Polynesia.Psychotria crassipetala''
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Psychotria cuneifolia
''Psychotria cuneifolia'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, w ...
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Psychotria cyathicalyx
''Psychotria cyathicalyx'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within th ...
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Psychotria dallachiana
''Psychotria dallachiana'' is a rainforest plant growing in north eastern Australia. The fruit is food for the cassowary
Cassowaries ( tpi, muruk, id, kasuari) are flightless birds of the genus ''Casuarius'' in the order Casuariiformes. ...
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Psychotria dasyophthalma
''Psychotria dasyophthalma'' is a species of plant in the family '' Rubiaceae''. It is endemic to Jamaica.
References
dasyophthalma
''Dasyophthalma'' is a genus of medium-sized brownish butterflies in the family Nymphalidae
The Nymp ...
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Psychotria densinervia
''Psychotria densinervia'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also termed h ...
Psychotria domatiata
''Psychotria domatiata'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
domatiata
Vulnerable plants
Endemic flora of Jamaica
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot ...
Psychotria expansa
''Psychotria expansa'' is a West Sumatran rainforest understory shrub
A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrub ...
Psychotria forsteriana
''Psychotria forsteriana'' is a South American rainforest understory shrub from the family Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, ...
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Psychotria franchetiana
''Psychotria franchetiana'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to French Polynesia
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Psychotria fusiformis
''Psychotria fusiformis'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, ...
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Psychotria gardneri
''Psychotria gardneri'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=I ...
Psychotria globicephala
''Psychotria globicephala'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to Kerala and Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union t ...
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Psychotria grandiflora
''Psychotria grandiflora'', the largeflower wild coffee, large-flowered balsamo or ''kopiko'', is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae endemic to the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. It grows in rainforest habitat. There are ten sm ...
Psychotria greenwelliae
''Psychotria greenwelliae'', the Kauai wild coffee, is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to the islands of Kauai
Kauai, () anglicized as Kauai ( ), is geologically the second-oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands ( ...
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Psychotria guerkeana
''Psychotria guerkeana'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to São Tomé Island and is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN. It was named and described by Karl Moritz Schumann
Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 2 ...
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Psychotria hanoverensis
''Psychotria hanoverensis'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antille ...
Psychotria insularum
''Psychotria insularum'' is a rainforest understory shrub from the coffee family, Rubiaceae. Its native range is the South Pacific.
It has traditional uses in herbal medicine. In 2021, the potent anti-inflammatory rutin was isolated from ''P. i ...
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Psychotria lanceifolia
''Psychotria lanceifolia'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by ha ...
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Psychotria ligustrifolia
''Psychotria ligustrifolia'', the Bahama wild coffee, is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas.
Synonyms
* ''Psychotria bahamensis''
See also
*Bahamian dry forests
The Bahamian dry ...
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Psychotria longipetiolata
''Psychotria longipetiolata'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit ...
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Psychotria loniceroides
''Psychotria loniceroides'', the hairy psychotria, is a plant native to the forest areas of eastern Australia.
The habitat is the ecotone on the edge of rainforest and eucalyptus forests. It is also found in the understorey of various types of ...
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Psychotria macrocarpa
''Psychotria macrocarpa'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to Kerala and Tamil Nadu in India.
References
macrocarpa
''Hesperocyparis macrocarpa'' is a coniferous tree. It is commonly known as the Monterey cyp ...
Psychotria mariniana
''Psychotria mariniana'', the forest wild coffee or ''kōpiko'', is a tree endemic to Hawaii. The plant belongs to the Rubiaceae (coffee) family, subfamily Rubioidae. It is a tree of varying size with a dark bark, shiny leaves, and orange oval ...
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Psychotria megalopus
''Psychotria megalopus'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Tanzania.
References
Flora of Tanzania
megalopus
''Megalopus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Megalopodidae
The Megalopodidae are a small f ...
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Psychotria megistantha
''Psychotria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains 1,582 species and is therefore one of the largest genera of flowering plants. The genus has a pantropical distribution and members of the genus are small understor ...
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Psychotria minimicalyx
''Psychotria minimicalyx'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also termed h ...
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Psychotria moseskemei
''Psychotria moseskemei'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Cameroon and Nigeria. It is threatened by habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a n ...
Psychotria petitii
''Psychotria petitii'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Taita Hills in Kenya and threatened by habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natura ...
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Psychotria plicata
''Psychotria plicata'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and ...
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Psychotria plurivenia
''Psychotria plurivenia'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std ...
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Psychotria podocarpa
''Psychotria podocarpa'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Cameroon and Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also t ...
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Psychotria pseudoplatyphylla
''Psychotria pseudoplatyphylla'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Af ...
Psychotria rhonhofiae
''Psychotria rhonhofiae'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, ...
Psychotria rostrata
''Psychotria rostrata'' is a South American rainforest understory shrub from the coffee family, Rubiaceae.
References
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Psychotria rufipilis
''Psychotria rufipilis'' is an African rainforest understory shrub from the coffee
Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulant, stimulating effect on humans, pr ...
Psychotria siphonophora
''Psychotria siphonophora'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antill ...
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Psychotria sodiroi
''Psychotria sodiroi'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, whic ...
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Psychotria sordida
''Psychotria sordida'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=IS ...
Psychotria srilankensis
''Psychotria srilankensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, ...
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Psychotria tahitensis
''Psychotria tahitensis'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to the island of Tahiti, in the Society Islands of French Polynesia
)Territorial motto: ( en, "Great Tahiti of the Golden Haze")
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Psychotria taitensis
''Psychotria taitensis'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Kenya
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Psychotria tenuifolia
''Psychotria tenuifolia'', commonly known as velvet-leaved wild coffee, is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, ...
Psychotria viridis
''Psychotria viridis'', also known as ''chacruna'', ''chacrona'', or ''chaqruy'' in the Quechua languages, is a perennial, shrubby flowering plant in the coffee family Rubiaceae. It is a close relative of '' Psychotria carthagenensis'' (a.k.a. ' ...
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Psychotria waasii
''Psychotria waasii'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ...
Psychotria zombamontana
''Psychotria zombamontana'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
References
zombamontana
Flora of Tanzania
Flora of Zimbabwe
Near threatened plants
Taxonomy articles create ...
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Psychotria elata
''Palicourea elata'', formerly ''Psychotria elata'', commonly known as girlfriend kiss and labios de puta, is a tropical plant that ranges from Central to South American rain forests in countries such as Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and ...
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Psychotria poeppigiana __NOTOC__
''Psychotria poeppigiana'' is a plant species in the family Rubiaceae; a common name is sore-mouth bush,USDA (2006) though it is not very often used. This species is currently accepted as ''Palicourea tomentosa'' based on a journal articl ...
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Image gallery
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Psychotria elliptica
''Psychotria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains 1,582 species and is therefore one of the largest genera of flowering plants. The genus has a pantropical distribution and members of the genus are small underst ...
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Psychotria viridis
''Psychotria viridis'', also known as ''chacruna'', ''chacrona'', or ''chaqruy'' in the Quechua languages, is a perennial, shrubby flowering plant in the coffee family Rubiaceae. It is a close relative of '' Psychotria carthagenensis'' (a.k.a. ' ...
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Psychotria ankasensis
''Psychotria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains 1,582 species and is therefore one of the largest genera of flowering plants. The genus has a pantropical distribution and members of the genus are small underst ...
Psychotria capensis
''Psychotria capensis'', the bird-berry, is a southern African evergreen shrub or small tree. It belongs to a genus which is used medicinally in many regions, 'Psychotria' being from the Greek for 'rejuvenating', in reference to the healing prope ...