{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Pilocarpus_pennatifolius_-_Köhler–s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-238.jpg | image_caption = Paraguay Jaborandi (''Pilocarpus pennatifolius'') | taxon = Pilocarpus | authority = Vahl | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }}
'''''Pilocarpus''''' is a genus of about 13 species of plants belonging to the family Rutaceae, native to the Neotropics of South America. Various species are important pharmacologically as a source of the parasympathomimetic alkaloid pilocarpine.<ref name="ivcdb">{{cite journal|title=Production of Pilocarpine in Callus of Jaborandi (''Pilocarpus microphyllus'' Stapf)|jstor=4293939|first1=Ilka Nacif|last1=De Abreu|first2=Alexandra Cristine H. F.|last2=Sawaya|first3=Marcos Nogueira|last3=Eberlin|first4=Paulo|last4=Mazzafera|journal=In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant|volume=41|issue=6|date=November–December 2005|pages=806–811|publisher=Society for In Vitro Biology|doi=10.1079/IVP2005711|bibcode=2005IVCDB..41..806A |s2cid=26058596}}</ref> Many of the species have the common name jaborandi.
==Etymology== The taxonomic name ''Pilocarpus'' is derived from ancient Greek πῖλος wool, felt + καρπός fruit.
==Species== ;Selected species *''Pilocarpus goudotianus'' <small>Tul.</small> *''Pilocarpus jaborandi'' (Pernambuco jaborandi) *''Pilocarpus microphyllus'' (Maranham jaborandi) *''Pilocarpus racemosus'' (Guadeloupe jaborandi) *''Pilocarpus pennatifolius'' (Paraguay jaborandi)<ref><!-- Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria 28(4): 277 --> {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Jaborandi|volume=15|page=104}}</ref> *''Pilocarpus spicatus'' (Aracati jaborandi)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924124202/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?9392 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Pilocarpus'']
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Category:Zanthoxyloideae Category:Taxa named by Martin Vahl Category:Zanthoxyloideae genera