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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ethnobotanical Plant Phyllanthus acuminatus

Common Name
Parapara

Activities

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Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Piscicide Panama(Choco) *
Piscicide Peru Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Piscicide Elsewhere *
Piscicide Guiana(Arawak) Famshawe, D.B. 1949. Checklist of the indigenous woody plants of British Guiana. Forestry Bulletin No. 3. Forest Dept., British Guina.