Source de la synonymie (de Strychnos syntoxica Sprague & Sandwith, 1927)
Funk, V., Hollowell, T., Berry, P., Kelloff, C. & Alexander, S. N. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, 55: 1-580. [CD_REF = 733964] Strychnos toxifera R.H.Schomb. ex Benth., 1841 [nom. inval.]

 

Statut pour la Guyane française (de Strychnos toxifera R.H.Schomb. ex Benth., 1841 [nom. inval.])
Funk, V., Hollowell, T., Berry, P., Kelloff, C. & Alexander, S. N. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, 55: 1-580. [GF = P]

 

Date de publication : Fl. Med. 530. 1838 [07-12/1838, fide TL-2, 4652].

Type : "1118. S. toxifera Schomb. MSS. - Guayana. [...] This plant has been ascertained by Mr. Schomburgk to furnish the basis of a celebrated poison, called Wooraly, Woorari, Ourari, or Urari, in Guayana. According to Dr. Hancock, the bark, applied externay, is a good remedy for foul ulcers; in his opinion it is one of the most potent sedatives in nature, and, coud it be safely managed, would no doubt become a valuabe remedial agent in the treatment of convulsive and spasmodic disorders. Med. Gaz. xx. 281 [London Medical Gazette, 20: 281. 1837]." [protologue].
Guyana, Essequibo, Kanuku Mountains, R. Schomburgk 155 (HT: K).