Parastrephia

Parastrephia
Parastrephia sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae[1]
Genus: Parastrephia
Nutt.
Type species
Parastrephia ericoides
(syn of P. lucida)[1]
Nutt.
Synonyms[1]

Polyclados Phil.

Parastrephia is a genus of South American plants in the aster tribe within the sunflower family.[2][3]

Some Parastrephia species are used in traditional medicine. For example, Parastrephia lucida is used in the highlands of the Andes to relieve toothache, for bone fractures and bruises, and as a vulnerary.[4]

Species[1]
  1. Parastrephia lucida (Meyen) Cabrera - Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina
  2. Parastrephia quadrangularis (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina
  3. Parastrephia teretiuscula (Kuntze) Cabrera - Bolivia, Antofagasta Region of northern Chile

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. ↑ Nuttall, Thomas. 1841. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 7: 449–450 in English
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Parastrephia Nutt.
  4. ↑ D'Almeida RE, Alberto MR, Quispe C, Schmeda-Hirschmann G, Isla MI (2012). "Antimicrobial phenylpropanoids from the Argentinean highland plant Parastrephia lucida (Meyen) Cabrera". Journal of Ethnopharmacology 142 (2): 407–414. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2012.05.010. PMID 22735664.
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