Hydnocarpus kurzii is a species of flowering plant in the family Achariaceae.

It is used as a traditional medicinal plant.

[4] Working for Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories, the pharmacist Frederick B.

Power studied the seeds of various species of chaulmoogra[clarification needed] from 1904.

Power and colleagues identified chaulmoogric acid, which has the formula C18H32O2, from seeds of what was then called the Taraktogenos kurzii tree.