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Taxon:
Catha edulis
(Vahl) Forssk. ex Endl.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Catha
Family:
Celastraceae
Subfamily:
Celastroideae
Nomen number:
9606
Place of publication:
Ench. bot. 575. 1841
Comment:
Forsskal (1775) was nomen nudum
Verified:
12/10/1986
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Celastrus edulis
Vahl
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Reference(s)
Bally, P. R. O.
1945.
Catha edulis
. E. African Med. J. 22:4-6.
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
Note:
lists as
C. edulis
Forssk.
Cufodontis, G.
Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. 1953-1972
Duke, J. A. et al.
CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
Erhardt, W. et al.
Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002
Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
Flora zambesiaca. 1960-
http://www.kew.org/efloras/namesearch.do
Fernandes, A. & E. J. S. M. Mendes.
Flora de Mocambique. 1969-
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Note:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Catha+edulis&quantity=1
Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds.
Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14. 2003
Huxley, A., ed.
The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
Kunkel, G.
Plants for human consumption. 1984
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
Hortus third. 1976
Loesener, T.
1942. Celastraceae. Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien ed. 1. 1887-1915; ed. 2. 1925- ed. 2, 20b:154-155.
Mabberley, D. J.
The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Note:
American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
Rehm, S.
Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
Robyns, W. et al., eds.
Flore du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi. 1948-63
St. John, H.
List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. 1973
Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
Yousef, G. et al.
1995. Khat chewing as a cause of psychosis. Brit. J. Hosp. Med. 54:322-326.
Zohary, M. et al.
Conspectus florae orientalis. 1980-
PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
Arabian-tea –
Reference(s)
khat –
Reference(s)
miraa –
Reference(s)
German
arabischer Tee –
Reference(s)
Katstrauch –
Reference(s)
Khat –
Reference(s)
Spanish
té de Arabia –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
order_code
Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Kenya
1
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Tanzania
1
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Uganda
1
Native
Africa
Northeast Tropical Africa
Ethiopia
1
Native
Africa
South Tropical Africa
Angola
1
Native
Africa
South Tropical Africa
Malawi
1
Native
Africa
South Tropical Africa
Mozambique
1
Native
Africa
South Tropical Africa
Zambia
1
Native
Africa
South Tropical Africa
Zimbabwe
1
Native
Africa
Southern Africa
Eswatini
1
Native
Africa
Southern Africa
South Africa
Eastern Cape
1
Native
Africa
Southern Africa
South Africa
KwaZulu-Natal
1
Native
Africa
Southern Africa
South Africa
Limpopo
1
Native
Africa
Southern Africa
South Africa
Mpumalanga
1
Native
Africa
West-Central Tropical Africa
Zaire
e.
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
Arabian Peninsula
Yemen
2
Cultivated
also cult.
Native
Africa
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Ethiopia
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Angola
,
Mozambique
,
Malawi
,
Zambia
,
Zimbabwe
SOUTHERN AFRICA:
Eswatini
,
South Africa
[KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Limpopo, Mpumalanga]
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Zaire
(e.)
Asia-Temperate
ARABIAN PENINSULA:
Yemen
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Human food
beverage base (from leaves fide Pl Book) –
Reference(s)
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Reference(s)
Social
masticatory (but may cause psychosis fide Yousef et al., Brit. J. Hosp. Med. 54:322-326.) –
Reference(s)
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (causes psychosis in humans fide Yousef et al., Brit. J. Hosp. Med. 54:322-326.) –
Reference(s)
Name
References
Economic Uses