found: ITIS, Apr. 5, 2010(Coca -- genus: Erythroxylum P. Br. (accepted); species: Erythroxylum coca Lam. (accepted); variety: Erythroxylum coca var. coca Lam. (accepted))
found: Wikipedia, Apr. 5, 2010(Coca (Erythroxylum coca) is a plant in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to north-western South America. The plant plays a significant role in traditional Andean culture; traditional uses: Medicine: traditional medical uses of coca are foremost as a stimulant to overcome fatigue, hunger, and thirst. It is considered particularly effective against altitude sickness. It also is used as an anesthetic to alleviate the pain of headache, rheumatism, wounds and sores, etc.; Religion: Coca has also been a vital part of the religious cosmology of the Andean peoples of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and northern Argentina and Chile from the pre-Inca period through the present)
found: Botanical.com A modern herbal website, Apr. 5, 2010(Coca, Bolivian (Erythroxylon Coca): there are two varieties in commerce, the Huanuco coca, or Erythroxylon coca, which comes from Bolivia and has leaves of a brownish-green colour, oval, entire and glabrous, with a rather bitter taste, and Peruvian Coca, the leaves of which are much smaller and a pale-green colour)
