Areca catechu
Areca catechu (binomen a Carolo Linnaeo anno 1753 statutum) est species palmarum Arecacearum, ex Indomalaesia orta, cuius fructus in foliis Piper betle involuti masticari solent.

Notae

Bibliographia 
 Fontes antiquiores
 1597 : 
 1741 :  vol. 1 pp. 26-32, tab. 4; cf.  p. 123
 1753 :  "[Areca] cathecu"

 Eruditio
 Prakash C. Gupta, C. S. Ray, "Epidemiology of betel quid usage" in Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore vol. 33 (2004) pp. 31S-36S
 Prakash C. Gupta, Saman Warnakulasuriya, "Global Epidemiology of Areca nut usage" in Addiction Biology vol. 7 (2002) pp. 77-83
 Eric Hirsch, "Betelnut ‘bisnis’ and cosmology: a view from Papua New Guinea" in Jordan Goodman, Paul E. Lovejoy, Andrew Sherratt, edd., Consuming Habits: drugs in history and anthropology (Londinii: Routledge, 1995. ISBN 0415090393) pp. 86-97
 Camille Imbault-Huart, "Le Bétel" in T'oung Pao vol. 5 (1894) pp. 311-328 Textus JSTOR
 Marcello Spinella, The Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine: Plant Drugs That Alter Mind, Brain and Behavior. Cantabrigiae Massachusettensium: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN 0-262-69265-1
 Thomas J. Zumbroich, "The origin and diffusion of betel chewing: a synthesis of evidence from South Asia, Southeast Asia and beyond" in Ejournal of Indian Medicine vol. 1 (2007/2008) pp. 87-140 Textus

Nexus externi 

 "Areca Catechu" apud Multilingual Multiscript Plant Names Database
 "Areca Catechu" apud Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Species plantarum
Arecoideae
Taxa Linnaei
Taxa 1753
Fructus
Stimulantia
Fruges Indomalaesiae