Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon (74 page)

NOTE: BS = Bussmann & Sharon, 2007; CTD = Castner, Timme, & Duke, 1998; D = Duke, 2009; DV = Duke &
Vasquez, 1994; G = Gentry, 1993; GRO = Galy, Rengifo, & Olivier Hay, 2000; HGB = Henderson, Galeano, &
Bernal, 1995; LA = Lacaze & Alexiades, 1995, LV = Lopez Vinatea, 2000; MLT = McKenna, Luna, & Towers,
1995; MR = Mejia & Rengifo, 2000; PRC = Pinedo, Rengifo, & Cerruti, 1997; R = Rengifo, 2001; SR =
Schultes & Raffauf, 1990.

a Spelling variants include albaca and alvaca. The term sharamasho refers to wild basil species as well
(PRC 282).

D 242-245 identifies atadijo with sangre degrado.

Castonguay (1990, p. 63) gives the word labuceta as the name of a pusanga plant.

"This tree is also called catahua negra (Luna & Amaringo, 1993, p. 106).

e Chullachasi caspi [sic] is identified as Licania heteromorphia (G 332); Licania spp. are elsewhere called
apacharama (DV 105; G 332).

' Spelling variants include asahi, asai, huasahi, and huasi.

The seeds of the huayruro are considered to come in male and female forms: the solid red seed, huayruro
hembra, considered female, is Ormosia macrocalyx; the red and black seed, huayruro macho, considered male, is 0. amazonica. Photographs can be seen in Smithsonian Tropical Research, 2006a,
2006b.

" Dona Maria and don Roberto identify maricahua as the same plant as toe negro, Teliostachya lanceolata.

B. gasipaes is probably the palm denoted by the Shuar term uwi (SR 351), rather than Guilelma gasipaes
(Perruchon, 2003, p. 267 n. 9).

This palm is probably not Irartea exorhiza (Luna & Amaringo, 1993, p. 88), since Irartea spp. have "nonspiny stilt roots" (G 192); Socratea is differentiated from Irartea by "stilt roots which are densely covered with spines" (CTD 117).

"A surprising number of genera are called suelda con suelda in Peru-Adiantum latifolium (D 21); Ephedra
americana (BS 251-252), Oryctanthus spp. (D 492; DV 127; R 25), Phoradendron spp. (D 528-530;
DV 135-136; G 568), Psitticantus chanduyensis (BS 355-356), and Tristerix longibracteatus (BS 355).