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Internal ID UUID644056f8d2d97942624338
Scientific name Lophophora diffusa
Authority (Croizat) Bravo
First published in in Cact. Suc. Mex. 12: 13. 1967.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Peyotl viridescens (Halda) Sotom., Arred. & Mart.Mend. in Cactus & Co. 5: 227. 2001.
Lophophora koehresii (Říha) Bohata, Myšák & Šnicer in Kaktusy (Brno) Special 2: 20. 2005.
Lophophora echinata var. diffusa Croizat in Desert Pl. Life 16: 44. 1944.
Lophophora diffusa var. koehresii Říha in Kaktusy (Brno) 32: 70. 1996.
Lophophora williamsii var. diffusa (Croizat) G.D.Rowley in Repert. Pl. Succ. 27: 7. 1979.
Lophophora williamsii var. koehresii (Říha) Grym Rod Lophophora: 55. 1997.
Peyotl koehresii (Říha) Sotom.
Lophophora diffusa subsp. viridescens Halda in Cactaceae (Bratislava) 7: 61. 1997.
Lophophora viridescens (Halda) Halda in Acta Mus. Richnov., Sect. Nat. 4: 71. 1997.
Lophophora diffusa subsp. kubesae Halda, Kupcák & Malina in Acta Mus. Richnov., Sect. Nat. 9: 66. 2002.
Lophophora diffusa var. swobodaiana Halda, Kupcák & Malina in Acta Mus. Richnov., Sect. Nat. 9: 67. 2002.
Lophophora williamsii subsp. diffusa (Croizat) Scheinvar Fl. Cactológ. Est. Querétaro: 212. 2004.
Peyotl diffusus (Croizat) Sotom.

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Language Common/alternative name
English peyote
Spanish peyote queretano
Spanish lophophora diffusa subsp. viridescens
Spanish lophophora diffusa var. koehresii
Spanish lophophora diffusa var. swobodaiana
Spanish lophophora echinata var. diffusa
Spanish lophophora viridescens
Spanish lophophora williamsii var. koehresii
Arabic خصلاء منتشرة
Chinese 翠冠玉

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001256202
Tropicos 50180796
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:143598-2
The Plant List tro-50180796
Open Tree Of Life 543112
NCBI Taxonomy 130137
IUCN Red List 40967
IPNI 143598-2
iNaturalist 204983
GBIF 7282936
Freebase /m/02xb9tc
EPPO LOFDI
EOL 5185011
USDA GRIN 464916
Wikipedia Lophophora_diffusa

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In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of Pellotine: A Hypnotic Lophophora Alkaloid Poulie CB, Chan CB, Parka A, Lettorp M, Vos J, Raaschou A, Pottie E, Bundgaard MS, Sørensen LM, Cecchi CR, Märcher-Rørsted E, Bach A, Herth MM, Decker A, Jensen AA, Elfving B, Kretschmann AC, Stove CP, Kohlmeier KA, Cornett C, Janfelt C, Kornum BR, Kristensen JL ACS Pharmacol Transl Sci 18-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10580395
doi:10.1021/acsptsci.3c00142
PMID:37854625
Natural or artificial: An example of topographic spatial distribution analysis of mescaline in cactus plants by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging Lin J, Yang S, Ji J, Xiang P, Wu L, Chen H Front Plant Sci 10-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9950628
doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1066595
PMID:36844095
Peyote identification on the basis of differences in morphology, mescaline content, and trnL/trnF sequence between Lophophora williamsii and L. diffusa. Aragane M, Sasaki Y, Nakajima J, Fukumori N, Yoshizawa M, Suzuki Y, Kitagawa S, Mori K, Ogino S, Yasuda I, Nagumo S J Nat Med 01-Jan-2011
doi:10.1007/S11418-010-0469-7
PMID:20890669
Determination of phenylethylamines in hallucinogenic cactus species by high-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode-array detection Hans-Jörg Helmlin, Daniel Bourquin, Rudolf Brenneisen Elsevier BV 25-Jul-2002
doi:10.1016/0021-9673(92)80380-D

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Benzenoids / Benzene and substituted derivatives / Phenethylamines
Mescaline 4076 Click to see 211.26 unknown https://doi.org/10.1007/S11418-010-0469-7
> Organoheterocyclic compounds / Tetrahydroisoquinolines
(-)-Pellotine 442336 Click to see CC1C2=C(C(=C(C=C2CCN1C)OC)OC)O 237.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9673(92)80380-D
6,7-Dimethoxy-1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolin-8-ol 199214 Click to see 223.27 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9673(92)80380-D

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