Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America: Brazil

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This volume in the series deals with the major Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) of South America, providing information on major aspects of this specific group of plants on that continent (botany, traditional usage, chemistry, production/collection practices, trade and utilization). Brazil, in particular, offers an immense amount of biodiversity, including plants with great pharmacological interest and ethno-medicinal importance. Contributions are from internationally recognized professionals, specialists of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant domain and have been invited mostly from the members of the International Society for Horticultural Science and International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 South American Biodiversity and Its Potential in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (Alissandra Trajano Nunes, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque)....Pages 3-15 Chemical Diversity and Ethnopharmacological Survey of South American Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Species (Rodney Alexandre Ferreira Rodrigues, Glyn Mara Figueira, Adilson Sartoratto, Lais Thiemi Yamane, Verônica Santana de Freitas-Blanco)....Pages 17-44 Front Matter ....Pages 45-45 Introduction to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Brazil (Ákos Máthé, José Crisólogo de Sales Silva)....Pages 47-69 Medicinal Plants and State Policy in South America: The Case of Colonial Brazil (Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros)....Pages 71-78 Front Matter ....Pages 79-79 Achyrocline satureioides (Lam.) DC. (Gabriela Granghelli Gonçalves, Maria Izabela Ferreira, Lin Chau Ming)....Pages 81-88 Adiantum raddianum C. Presl. (Rafael Corrêa Prota dos Santos Reinaldo, Ivanilda Soares Feitosa, Augusto César Pessôa Santiago, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque)....Pages 89-96 Aloysia citriodora Palau (Julio Alberto Hurrell)....Pages 97-108 Anemopaegma arvense (Vell.) Stellfeld ex De Souza (Fúlvio Rieli Mendes, Luis Carlos Marques)....Pages 109-119 Aniba canellila (Kunth) Mez. (Lidiam Maia Leandro, Paula Cristina Souza Barbosa, Simone Braga Carneiro, Larissa Silveira Moreira Wiedemann, Valdir Florêncio da Veiga-Junior)....Pages 121-127 Baccharis trimera (Less.) DC. (Daniel Garcia, Marcos Roberto Furlan, Lin Chau Ming)....Pages 129-138 Bauhinia forficata Link (Valdir Cechinel Filho)....Pages 139-143 Byrsonima intermedia A. Juss. (Raquel de Cássia dos Santos, Larissa Lucena Périco, Vinícius Peixoto Rodrigues, Miriam Sannomiya, Lúcia Regina Machado da Rocha, Clélia Akiko Hiruma-Lima)....Pages 145-152 Caryocar coriaceum Wittm. (Rogério de Aquino Saraiva, Izabel Cristina Santiago Lemos, Patricia Rosane Leite de Figueiredo, Luiz Jardelino de Lacerda Neto, Cícera Norma Fernandes Lima, Mariana Késsia Andrade Araruna et al.)....Pages 153-162 Clinopodium gilliesii (Benth.) Kuntze (Julio Alberto Hurrell)....Pages 163-172 Croton zehntneri Pax & K. Hoffm (Euphorbiaceae) (Jackson Roberto Guedes da Silva Almeida, Ana Carolina Murta Ramalho, Fernanda Guerra da Silveira)....Pages 173-182 Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf (Wendy Marisol Torres-Avilez, Flávia dos Santos Silva, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque)....Pages 183-196 Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants (Julio Alberto Hurrell)....Pages 197-209 Echinodorus macrophyllus (Kunth) Micheli (Maria Izabela Ferreira, Gabriela Granghelli Gonçalves, Lin Chau Ming)....Pages 211-217 Equisetum giganteum L. (Ivanilda Soares Feitosa, Rafael Corrêa Prota dos Santos Reinaldo, Augusto César Pessôa Santiago, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque)....Pages 219-225 Heteropterys tomentosa A. Juss. (Fúlvio Rieli Mendes, Eliana Rodrigues)....Pages 227-239 Himatanthus drasticus (Mart.) Plumel (André Sobral, Alessandro Rapini, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque)....Pages 241-249 Justicia pectoralis Jacq. (Carles Roersch)....Pages 251-264 Kalanchoe brasiliensis Camb. and Kalanchoe pinnata (Lamk.) Pers. (Rosilene Gomes da Silva Ferreira, Nilma de Souza Fernandes, Valdir Florêncio da Veiga-Junior)....Pages 265-273 Lantana camara L. and Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq. (Erlânio O. de Sousa, Sheyla C. X. de Almeida, Sarah S. Damasceno, Camila B. Nobre, José Galberto M. da Costa)....Pages 275-288 Lippia alba (Mill.) N.E.Br. ex Britton & P. Wilson (Renata Evaristo Rodrigues da Silva, Isabel Cristina Santiago, Vanessa de Carvalho Nilo Bitu, Marta Regina Kerntopf, Irwin Rose Alencar de Menezes, Roseli Barbosa)....Pages 289-298 Lonchocarpus araripensis Benth. (Fabaceae) (Jackson Roberto Guedes da Silva Almeida, Ana Carolina Murta Ramalho, Fernanda Guerra da Silveira)....Pages 299-308 Lychnophora pinaster Mart. (Paulo Sérgio Siberti da Silva, Maria Aparecida Ribeiro Vieira, Marcia Ortiz Mayo Marques)....Pages 309-316 Marrubium vulgare L. (Valdir Cechinel Filho)....Pages 317-321 Maytenus ilicifolia Mart. ex Reissek (Larissa Lucena Périco, Vinícius Peixoto Rodrigues, Luiz Fernando Rolim de Almeida, Ana Paula Fortuna-Perez, Wagner Vilegas, Clélia Akiko Hiruma-Lima)....Pages 323-335 Mikania glomerata Spreng. & Mikania laevigata Sch.Bip. ex Baker (Letícia M. Ricardo, Maria G. L. Brandão)....Pages 337-344 Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir. (Andrêsa Suana Argemiro Alves, Gilney Charll Santos, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque)....Pages 345-353 Oxalis adenophylla Gillies ex Hook. & Arn. (Juan J. Ochoa, Ana Haydeé Ladio)....Pages 355-366 Phyllanthus niruri L. (Valdir Cechinel Filho)....Pages 367-371 Pluchea carolinensis (Jacq.) G. Don (Carles Roersch)....Pages 373-391 Polygonum punctatum Elliott (Maria Izabela Ferreira, Gabriela Granghelli Gonçalves, Lin Chau Ming)....Pages 393-400 Ptychopetalum olacoides Benth. (Leonardo Frasson dos Reis, Fúlvio Rieli Mendes)....Pages 401-411 Punica granatum L. (André dos Santos Souza, José Ribamar de Souza Jr., Daniel Carvalho Pires Sousa, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque)....Pages 413-420 Schinopsis brasiliensis Engl. (Ana Cláudia Dantas Medeiros, Laianne Carla Batista Alencar, Délcio de Castro Felismino)....Pages 421-429 Stryphnodendron adstringens (Mart.) Coville (Letícia Mendes Ricardo, Maria G. L. Brandão)....Pages 431-437 Tabebuia avellanedae Lorentz ex Griseb. (Rainer W. Bussmann)....Pages 439-451 Uncaria tomentosa (Willd. ex Schult.) DC. and Uncaria guianensis (Aubl.) J.F. Gmell (Izaskun Urdanibia, Peter Taylor)....Pages 453-463 Valeriana carnosa Sm. (Soledad Molares, Ana H. Ladio)....Pages 465-475 Ximenia americana L. (Ana Cláudia D. Medeiros, Francinalva D. de Medeiros)....Pages 477-486