Erythroxylum vaccinifolium

Erythroxylum vaccinifolium is a flowering plant species in the genus Erythroxylum.

Erythroxylum vaccinifolium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Erythroxylaceae
Genus:	Erythroxylum
Species:	E. vaccinifolium
Binomial name
Erythroxylum vaccinifolium Mart. 1840
Synonyms
Erythroxylum catuaba A.J.Silva ex Raym.-Hamet, 1936

It is used to prepare catuaba, an infusion used as an aphrodisiac in Brazilian herbal medicine. It contains a class of tropane alkaloids called catuabines, more specifically the alkaloids catuabine A, B and C.^[1]