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Latin name	Virola megacarpa A.H.Gentry
Family	Myristicaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
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English name	bigfruit virola
French name	virole à gros fruits
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Latin name	Virola multiflora (Standl.) A.C.Sm.
Family	Myristicaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
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Synonym	Dialyanthera multiflora Standl. Virola brachycarpa Standl.
English name	manyflower virola; banak, bastard banak (Belize)
French name	virole multiflore
Spanish name	cebo (Nicaragua); sangre (Honduras)
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Latin name	Virola nobilis A.C.Sm.
Family	Myristicaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica, Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
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English name	noble virola
French name	virole noble
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Latin name	Virola sebifera Aubl.
Family	Myristicaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Honduras to Panama) South America (general)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
Foliage	[D]
Ecology	hel hyg
Use	fr ma (seed oil for candle and soap, industrial oil) pl ti (boxes, cases, concrete forms, crates, furniture, general carpentry, matches, plywood)
Synonym	Myristica cordifolia Mart. ex A.DC. Myristica fulva King Myristica mocoa A.DC. Myristica panamensis Hemsl. Myristica sebifera (Aubl.) Sw. Myristica sebifera var. cordifolia A.DC. Myristica sebifera var. curvinervia A.DC. Myristica virola Raeusch. Palala mocoa (A.DC.) Kuntze Palala panamensis (Hemsl.) Kuntze Palala sebifera (Aubl.) Kuntze Virola boliviensis Warb. Virola mocoa (A.DC.) Warb. Virola mycetis Pulle Virola panamensis (Hemsl.) Warb. Virola peruviana var. tomentosa Warb. Virola sebifera var. curvinervia Warb. Virola venezuelensis Warb. Virola warburgii Pittier
English name	wildnutmeg virola; wild nutmeg
French name	virole à cire; arbre à cire; muscadier porte-suif, yaya madou, yayamadou (French Guiana)
Spanish name	banak (Nicaragua); bogamani (Panama); cacao de monte (Ecuador); cebo (Nicaragua); chalviande (Ecuador); chocolatillo (Bolivia); coco (Ecuador); copidijo (Panama); cuajo (Venezuela); cuángare (Ecuador); cuángare de loma, cuángare puntelanza (Colombia); cumala (Ecuador, Peru); fruta dorada (Costa Rica, Panama); gorgoran, malaguela de montaña, mancha (Panama); nuánamo, sacha membrillo (Ecuador); sangre (Honduras); sangre de toro (Bolivia, Colombia); sangre drago (Nicaragua); sangretoro (Colombia); sangrino (Venezuela); soto (Colombia); tabegua, velario colorado (Panama)
Other name	arbol de sebo, arbore de grassa, arvore-de-cera (Brazil); baboen (Suriname); bequiba, bicuiba, bicuiba vermelha (Brazil); dalli (Guyana); gordura-de-virola, lacre, ucuuba-da-terra firme, ucuúba-do-cerrado, ucuuba-preta, ucuúba-vermelha, ucuubarana (Brazil)
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Latin name	Virola surinamensis (Rol. ex Rottb.) Warb.
Family	Myristicaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Lesser Antilles) South America (tropics)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
Foliage	E
Ecology	hel hyg
Use	dr fd fr fw ma (seed oil) pl pp ti (boxes, buildings, concrete forms, crates, general carpentry, interior construction, laminated, plywood)
Synonym	Myristica fatua Sw. Myristica sebifera var. longifolia Lam. Myristica surinamensis Rol. ex Rottb. Palala surinamensis (Rol. ex Rottb.) Kuntze Virola glaziovii Warb.
English name	Suriname virola; dalli, delli (Guyana); wild nutmeg (Tobago, Trinidad)
French name	virole marécage; guingamadou; yayamadou (French Guiana); yayamadou marécage
Spanish name	camaticaro (Venezuela); candelo (Honduras); chalviande (Ecuador); cuajo (Guyana, Venezuela); cumala blanca (Peru); fruta dorada (Costa Rica, Honduras); palo santo negro (Bolivia); shempo (Ecuador)
Other name	andiroba, árvore-do-sebo (Brazil); baboen (dutch, Suriname); bicuiba (portuguese, Brazil); bicuíba (Brazil); cajuca (Trinidad and Tobago); chucum (Ecuador); moulomba (aukaans and saramaccan); nós-moscada (Brazil); sabdurgia (kuna, Panama); tzemfo (shuar, Ecuador); ucuúba, ucuúba branca (portuguese, Brazil); ucuúba-amarela, ucuúba-branca, ucuúba-cheirosa, ucuúba-verdadeira (Brazil); uncuúba-branca (portuguese, Brazil); uncuúba-da-várzea, urucurana (Brazil)
Trade name	baboen (Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago)

Latin name	Vismia Vand.
Family	Guttiferae
Distribution
North America distribution zone
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Synonym	Caopia Adans.
English name	vismia
French name	vismie
Spanish name	carate, lanzo
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Latin name	Vismia baccifera (L.) Triana & Planch.
Family	Guttiferae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Panama) N M South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	L
Foliage
Ecology	hel [mes]
Use	fr fw ma pl (living fences) ti
Synonym	Hypericum bacciferum L. Vismia baccifera ssp. dealbata (Kunth) Ewan Vismia confertiflora auct. non Spruce ex Reichardt Vismia dealbata Kunth
English name	bearingberries vismia
French name	vismie bacciforme
Spanish name	achiote tigre (Panama); carate, lanzo (Colombia); mancha ropa (Nicaragua); mata roncha (Honduras); pinta-mozo (Panama); puntelanza (Colombia); ronchil (Nicaragua); sangré de perro, sangrillo (Panama)
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Latin name	Vismia billbergiana Beurl.
Family	Guttiferae
Distribution	SE North America (Nicaragua to Panama) NW South America (Colombia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S[M]
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Use	fr
Synonym	Caopia billbergiana Kuntze Vismia angusta Miq. Vismia guianensis Seem. non (Aubl.) Choisy Vismia latifolia sensu Reichardt non (Aubl.) Choisy Vismia viridiflora Duchass. ex Triana & Planch.
English name	Billberg vismia
French name	vismie de Billberg
Spanish name	pinta-mozo, sangrillo (Panama)
Other name	kwiska mas, numas (kuna, Panama)
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Latin name	Vismia camparaguey Sprague & Riley
Family	Guttiferae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	S
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Use	dr fw ti
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English name	yellow vismia; can't-be-helped; old William, ringworm tree, wild annato, yellow sangre (Belize)
French name	vismie jaune
Spanish name	achiotillo, achotillo, camparaguey, lengua de chivo, sangre de perro (Guatemala)
Other name	c'am-para-why (maya, Belize); camparaguay (quecchí, Guatemala); cuxupche (maya, Guatemala); ka'n-k'arhy, sak'-am-pa-ra-guáy (maya, Belize)
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Latin name	Vismia guianensis (Aubl.) Choisy
Family	Guttiferae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica) N M South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, Trinidad, Peru, Bolivia, NE Brazil) N M Africa
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M[L]
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Use	dr ma
Synonym	Caopia ferruginea Kuntze Hypericum acuminatum Lam. Hypericum guianense Aubl. Vismia acuminata (Lam.) Pers. Vismia baccifera ssp. ferruginea (Kunth) Ewan Vismia caparosa Kunth Vismia ferruginea Kunth Vismia guianensis var. acuminata (Lam.) M.E.Berg
English name	Guiana vismia
French name	vismie coumaté; coumaté
Spanish name	achiotillo, achotillo (Costa Rica); carate, carate blanco (Colombia); lacre, lacre blanco, lacre hoja fina, nadama, onotillo, onotíllo (Venezuela); pinta-mozo, sangre de perro (Panama); sangrillo (Costa Rica, Panama)
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Latin name	Vismia jefensis N.Robson
Family	Guttiferae
Distribution	SE North America (end Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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English name	CerroJefe vismia
French name	vismie du Cerro Jefe
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Latin name	Vismia latifolia (Aubl.) Choisy
Family	Guttiferae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama) NC MC South America (French Guiana, Bolivia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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Synonym	Hypericum latifolium Aubl.
English name	broadleaf vismia
French name	vismie à feuilles larges
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Latin name	Vismia latisepala N.Robson
Family	Guttiferae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama) NW MW South America (Colombia, Ecuador)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S[M]
Foliage
Ecology	hel
Use	dr (sap applied directly on skin to cure mushroom affections and remove face stains on pregnant womens)
Synonym
English name	broadsepale vismia
French name	vismie à sépales larges
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Other name	sapi urdale (kuna, Panama)
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Latin name	Vismia macrophylla Kunth
Family	Guttiferae
Distribution	SE North America (Central America) N MW MC South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Amazonian Brazil)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
Foliage
Ecology
Use	dr fw
Synonym	Caopia cordata Rusby Caopia macrophylla Kuntze Vismia latifolia Reichardt non (Aubl.) Choisy
English name	bigleaf vismia; ringworm plant (Belize)
French name	vismie à grandes feuilles
Spanish name	achiotillo (Ecuador); ambara guay (Belize); carate (Colombia); lacre (Venezuela); mata roncha (Honduras); mataroncha (Nicaragua); puntelanza (Colombia)
Other name	kan'-an-pa-ra-guáy (maya, Belize)
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Latin name	Vismia mexicana Schltdl.
Family	Guttiferae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M
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Use	dr (toothache and headache)
Synonym	Coapia mexicana Kuntze
English name	Mexican vismia
French name	vismie du Mexique
Spanish name	achiotillo (Guatemala, Honduras); camparaguey (Guatemala); coloradillo, guayabón de montaña (Honduras); tesuate colorado (Mexico)
Other name	camparaguay (quecchí)
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Latin name	Vismia panamensis Duchass. & Walp.
Family	Guttiferae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica, Panama) NW MW South America (Colombia, Ecuador)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M[L]
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Ecology	hel
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Synonym	Caopia panamensis Kuntze
English name	Panama vismia
French name	vismie du Panama
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Latin name	Vitex L.
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution
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Synonym	Agnus-castus Carrière Allasia Lour. Casarettoa Walp. Chrysomallum A.Thouars Ephialis Banks & Sol. ex A.Cunn. Limia Vand. Macrostegia Nees Mailelou Rheede ex Adans. Nephrandra Willd. Psilogyne DC. Pyrostoma G.Mey. Tripinna Lour. Tripinnaria Pers. Varengevillea Baill. Vitex Tourn. Wallrothia Roth
English name	chastetree; chaste tree
French name	gattilier
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Other name	bwa leza, bwa savann, grigri (creole, Haiti); Mönchspfeffer (german); vitice (italian)
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Latin name	Vitex cooperi Standl.
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Guatemala to Panama) NW South America (Colombia)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	L
Foliage
Ecology	hel mes->hyg
Use	ti (boat decking, bridge board, buckets, fence posts, flooring, general construction, house framing, house posts, professional instruments, railroad ties)
Synonym
English name	yellow chastetree; white manwood (Honduras); yellow manwood (Costa Rica, Panama)
French name	gattilier jaune
Spanish name	bimbayan (Nicaragua); cacho venado, cuajada (Costa Rica); cuajado (Panama); flor azul (Honduras); manú plátano, manut, plátano (Costa Rica); rajatebien; trúntago (Colombia)
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Trade name	rajate bien (USA)

Latin name	Vitex cymosa Bertero ex Spreng.
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama) South America (general)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
Foliage	D
Ecology	hel hyg->xer
Use	fd (fruits) fr fw ma pl sa ti (construction, framing, posts)
Synonym	Jatropha tomentosa Spreng. Vitex cujabensis Mart. ex Benth. Vitex discolor Glaz.
English name	cymose chastetree
French name	gattilier à cymes
Spanish name	aceituno (Colombia); azietuno, cañaguate; cuajado (Panama); jaramantaia; nocuito (Colombia); rajatebien; tamurá cluro (Argentina); tarumá (Bolivia); tarumá de varzea (Colombia); tarumá do alagado, tarumá do igapó
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Latin name	Vitex divaricata Sw.
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles) N MW South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, Ecuador, Trinidad)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
Foliage	D E
Ecology	hel hyg
Use	fd ma (leaves for tannin) pl ti (shingles)
Synonym	Vitex divaricata var. cubensis Urb. Vitex divaricata Sw. var. divaricata Vitex divaricata var. haitiensis Urb. Vitex multiflora Sw.
English name	Guiana chastetree; bastard fiddle wood (Lesser Antilles); black fiddlewood (Trinidad and Tobago); fiddlewood (Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, St. Vincent); timber fiddlewood (Tobago); white fiddle wood (Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles); white fiddlewood (Montserrat)
French name	gattilier bois-lézard; bois à agouti (Guadeloupe, Martinique); bois lézard (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles, Martinique, Trinidad); bois-agouti, bois-lézard
Spanish name	higuerillo (Puerto Rico); higüerillo; higuerillo cimarrón, ofón criollo (Cuba, Dominican Republic); pendula, pendula blanca (Puerto Rico); punte (Colombia); roble de olor, roble guayo (Cuba, Dominican Republic); taruma (Trinidad and Tobago); totumillo (Venezuela)
Other name	bwa leza (creole, Haiti)
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Latin name	Vitex floridula Duchass. & Walp.
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama) NW South America (Colombia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Ecology
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English name	flowery chastetree
French name	gattilier fleuri
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Latin name	Vitex gaumeri Greenm.
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Nicaragua)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	L
Foliage	D
Ecology	hel hyg->mes calc
Use	dr fr fw ma ti (beams, decorative accessories, flooring, framing, window framing, furniture, general carpentry, handicraft, harness, labouring instruments, plywood corestock, sawn timber, sport and athletic goods, tool handles, turned work, veneer, yoke)
Synonym	Vitex longeracemosa Pittier
English name	fiddlewood chastetree; blue blossom, dogwood (Belize); fiddlewood (Belize, Honduras); second yax nik, walking lady (Belize)
French name	gattilier bleu
Spanish name	baloua (Nicaragua); barrabás cenizo (Honduras); bimbayán (Nicaragua); crucillo (Mexico); flor azul (Belize, Honduras); jocote de mico (Guatemala); matasano (Belize)
Other name	nichté (tzeltal); sak-u-sol, ya ch nik (maya, Belize); ya'axnik (maya); yash-nik (Belize); yashcabté (tzeltal); yax nik ux pe, yax-nik (maya, Belize); yaxnic (maya, Guatemala)
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Latin name	Vitex gigantea Kunth
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama) NW MW South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
Foliage
Ecology
Use	fd ti
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English name	giant chastetree
French name	gattilier géant
Spanish name	cuajado blanco (Panama); pechiche (Ecuador, Peru)
Other name	titinomi (shuar, Ecuador)
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Latin name	Vitex hemsleyi Briq.
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution	SC North America (S Mexico, Guatemala)
North America distribution zone	SC
Height	L?
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Ecology
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English name	Hemsley chastetree
French name	gattilier de Hemsley
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Latin name	Vitex heptaphylla A.Juss.
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Dominica)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
Foliage	E
Ecology	hel calc serp
Use	dr (macerated leaves compress for enlarged liver, headache and chronic cold, pulverized seed with onion application for appendicitis)
Synonym	Vitex balbisii Spreng. Vitex umbrosa Sw.
English name	sevenleaf chastetree; black fiddlewood, box wood, lizard wood (Jamaica)
French name	gattilier à sept feuilles; bois de savane, bois savane (Haiti); grigri, gris-gris (Haiti)
Spanish name	capá de Puerto Rico (Dominican Republic); chicharrón (Cuba); gri-gri, malagueta, malagueto, mata becerro, palo perriro, palo perrito (Dominican Republic); panda (Cuba, Dominican Republic)
Other name	bwa savann, grigri (creole, Haiti)
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Latin name	Vitex integrifolia Urb.
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Dominican Republic: Peninsula de Samaná, Samanà, Los Haitises, Poiteau)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage
Ecology	calc
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English name	entireleaf chastetree
French name	gattilier à feuilles entières
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Latin name	Vitex kuylenii Standl.
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Nicaragua)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	L
Foliage
Ecology	hyg
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English name	Kuylen chastetree; blue blossom, fiddlewood (Belize)
French name	gattilier de Kuylen
Spanish name	barabas (Guatemala); flor azul (Honduras); florazul (Belize)
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Latin name	Vitex masoniana Pittier
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama) NW South America (Colombia)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L
Foliage
Ecology
Use	dr
Synonym
English name	Mason chastetree
French name	gattilier de Mason
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Other name	tidep (kuna, Panama)
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Latin name	Vitex mollis Kunth
Family	Verbenaceae
Distribution	SW SC North America (Mexico: Baja California, Sonora to Oaxaca)
North America distribution zone	SW SC
Height	M
Foliage	D
Ecology	hel mes sili
Use	fd
Synonym
English name	soft chastetree
French name	gattilier soyeux
Spanish name	aguamalaria, ahuilote, atuto, atuto-ayaqui-cueramo, cuyotomate, negro coyote, tescalama, torete, uvalama (Mexico)
Other name	huhuhuali (guarigio); yaxcabté (tzeltal)
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Latin name	Vochysia Aubl.
Family	Vochysiaceae
Distribution
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Synonym	Cucullaria Schreb. Salmonia Scop. Vochisia A.Juss. Vochy Aubl. Vochya Vell. ex Vand. Vochysia Poir.
English name	vochysia
French name	vochysia; grignon, moutendé
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Other name	moutendé (aukaans)
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