English: Potency wood; Muir puama, = potency wood; Muira puma.
Synonyms: Ptychopetalum uncinatum; Ptychopetalum olacoïdes; Liriosma ovata.
German: Potenzholz; Potenzbaum.
Dutch: Potentiehout.
Range: South America, Brazil.
Content: long-chain fatty acids; sterols, coumarin, lupeol; alkaloid muirapuamine; MAO inhibitor; alpha-copaene, alpha-elemene, alpha-guaiene, alpha-humulene, alpha-muurolene, alpha-pinene, alpha-resinic acid, alpha-terpinene, arachidic acid, allo-aromadendren, behenic acid, beta-bisabolene, beta-caryophyllene, beta-pinene, beta-resinic acid, beta-sitosterol, beta-transfarnesene, borneol, campesterols, camphene, camphor, car-3-ene, caryophyllene, cerotic acid, chromium, coumarin, cubebene, delta-cadinene, dotriacontanoic acid, elixene, ergosterols, eugenol, essential oils, gamma-muurolene, hentriacontanoic acid, heptacosanoic acid, lignoceric acid, limonene, linalool, lupeol, melissic acid, montanic acid, muirapuamine, myrcene, nonacosanoic acid, para-cymene, pentacosanoic acid, phlobaphene, stigmasterols, trichosanic acid, uncosanic acid.
Use: traditional medicinal.
BotanyShrubs or small trees; up to 5 m tall.
Root: strongly tough; fibrous, internally light brown with thin bark and broad wood; faint odour; taste slightly saline and acrid.
Flowers: small, white; pungent fragrance, like jasmine.