Unonopsis veneficiorum
Annonaceae FAMILY Least Concern

Unonopsis veneficiorum

Unonopsis veneficiorum

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

The plant contains alkaloids, believed to be bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloids. It has been used as part of a contraceptive formula, whilst the root and bark of the lower stem are used either as the basis of, or as an admixture to, the arrow poison curare[1, 2]. The fruit is used as a poison in blowgun darts[3].

Cultivation Details

HabitTree
Growth—

Not known

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Unonopsis+veneficiorum>

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References

  1. [1]Botanical Museum Leaflets Vol 28 — Harvard University; Cambridge, Mass. · 1981 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎An article on the Ethnopharmacological uses of plants in northwestern S. America, amongst many other articles. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  2. [2]Botanical Museum Leaflets Vol 26 — Harvard University; Cambridge, Mass. · 1978 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎A series of botanical leaflets. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  3. [3]Enciclopedia de las Plantas Útiles del Ecuador — de la Torre, L., Navarrete H., P. Muriel M., Macía M.J. & Ba · Herbario QCA de la Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas de la Pontific · 2008 · ISBN 978-9978-77-135-8 ↩︎
  4. [4]Flora of Peru — Macbride. J.F. · Field Museum of Natural History · 1936 ↩︎An excellent attempt at a Flora of Peru, though it is clear that many of the plants were imperfectly known at that time and so information on them was sketchy. Available for download from the Internet.
  5. [5]Revision of the Neotropical Genera Bocageopsis, Onychopetalum and Unonopsis (Annonaceae) — Maas P.J.M. et al · 2007 · http://dx.doi.org/10.3767/000651907X608909 ↩︎
  6. [6]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
  7. [7]Useful Plants of the Siona and Secoya Indians of Eastern Ecuador. — Vickers W.T.; Plowman T. · Field Museum of Natural History; USA. · 1984 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org · ISBN 0015 - 0746 ↩︎Very terse, but it gives the uses of a large number of species. It can be downloaded from the Internet.