PUBLISHED IN: Species Plantarum 2: 1013. 1753.

TYPE: Plumier, Nov. Pl. Amer. t. 27. 1703, lectotype designated by C. Jeffrey, Regnum Veg. 127: 47. 1993.

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SYNONYMY: Fevillea punctata Poir. in Lam., Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 4: 418–419. 1796.
     Fevillea javilla H.B.K., Nova Genera et Species Plantarum quarto ed. 2: 124. 1817.
     Fevillea karstenii Cogn., Monographiae Phanerogamarum 3: 943. 1881. Type: Venezuela, no date, Karsten s.n. (W).
     Nhandiroba cordifolia (L.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 257. 1891. Basionym: Fevillea cordifolia L., Species Plantarum 2: 1013. 1753.
     Siolmatra mexiae Standl., Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 13(6/2): 329. 1937. Holotype: Peru, Jan. 22, 1932, Mexia,Y. 6406 (F).

INFRASPECIFIC TAXA: Fevillea cordifolia var. hederacea (Poir.) Cogn., Monographiae Phanerogamarum 3: 943. 1881. Basionym: Fevillea hederacea Poir. in Lam., Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 4: 419. 1796.

VERNACULAR NAME: antidote vine

OTHER VERNACULAR NAMES: antidote caccoon, abilla, abiria
     Brazil: jatobá
     Peru: habilla grande

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DISTRIBUTION: Southern Mexico, east into the Caribbean to Puerto Rico, south through Central America, and into South America as far south as northern Argentina. Altitude 0–500 m (2000 m).

ECOLOGY: River banks and on the edges of tropical primary or secundary forests 0–500 m.

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MEDICINAL USE: Traditionally used in native medicine as a purgative and antidote to various poisons.

OTHER USE: Seed a source of oil.

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LITERATURE: Achenbach, H., R. Waibel, et al. 1993. Constituents of Fevillea cordifolia: New norcucurbitacin and cucurbitacin glycosides. Journal of Natural Products Lloydia 56(9): 1506–1519.
     Achenbach, H., B. U. Hefter, et al. 1992. Gas chromatographic analysis of the seed fat of the middle American Fevillea cordifolia (Cucurbitaceae). Fett Wissenschaft Technologie 94(8): 294–297.
     Johnson, L. B. N., W. J. Griffiths, et al. 1991. A mass spectral analysis of some cucurbitacins isolated from Fevillea cordifolia. Journal Of The Chemical Society Perkin Transactions I(10): 2583–2588.
     Johnson, L. B., P. B. Reese, et al. 1989. Structure elucidation of cordifolin A, a novel cucurbitacin from Fevillea cordifolia, using one and two dimensional NMR techniques. Journal Of The Chemical Society Perkin Transactions I(11): 2111–2116.
     Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez (eds.). 1999. Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden. 75: 1–1182.

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