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Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 Brazil Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World Series, Vol. 5

Langue : Anglais

Coordonnateurs : Albuquerque Ulysses Paulino, Patil Umesh, Máthé Ákos

Couverture de l’ouvrage Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America
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.
Foreword.- PART I. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America.- Chap. 1 South American Biodiversity and Its Potential In Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.- Chap. 2 Chemical diversity and Ethnopharmacology Survey of South American Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Species.- PART II. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Brazil.- Chap. 3 Introduction to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Brazil.- Chap. 4 Medicinal Plants and State Policy in South America: The case of Colonial Brazil.- PART III. Selected Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Brazil.- Chap. 5 Achyrocline satureioides (Lam.) DC.- Chap. 6 Adiantum raddianum C. Presl.- Chap. 7 Aloysia citriodora Palau.- Chap. 8 Anemopaegma arvense (Vell.) Stellfeld ex De Souza.- Chap. 9 Aniba canellila (Kunth) Mez.- Chap. 10 Baccharis trimera (Less.) DC.- Chap. 11 Bauhinia forficata Link.- Chap. 12 Byrsonima intermedia; A. Juss.- Chap. 13 Caryocar coriaceum Wittm.- Chap. 14Clinopodium gilliesii (Benth.) Kuntze.- Chap. 15 Croton zehntneri Pax & K. Hoffm.- Chap. 16 Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf.- Chap. 17 Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants.- Chap. 18 Echinodorus macrophyllus (Kunth) Micheli.- Chap. 19 Equisetum giganteum L.- Chap. 20 Heteropterys tomentosa A. Juss.- Chap. 21 Himatanthus drasticus (Mart.) Plumel.- Chap. 22 Justicia pectoralis Jacq.- Chap. 23 Kalanchoe brasiliensis Camb. and Kalanchoe pinnata (Lamk.) Pers.- Chap. 24 Lantana camara L. and Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq.- Chap. 25 Lippia alba (Mill.) N.E.Br. ex Britton & P.Wilson.- Chap. 26 Lonchocarpus araripensis Benth. (Fabaceae).- Chap. 27 Lychnophora pinaster Mart.- Chap. 28 Marrubium vulgare L.- Chap. 29 Maytenus ilicifolia Mart. ex Reissek.- Chap. 30 Mikania glomerata Spreng. & Mikania laevigata Sch.Bip. ex Baker.- Chap. 31 Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir.- Chap. 32 Oxalis adenophylla Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.- Chap. 33 Phyllanthus niruri L.- Chap. 34 Pluchea carolinensis (Jacq.) G. Don.- Chap. 35 Polygonum punctatum Elliott.- Chap. 36 Ptychopetalum olacoides Benth.- Chap. 37 Punica granatum L.- Chap. 38 Schinopsis brasiliensis Engl.- Chap. 39 Stryphnodendron adstringens (Mart.) Coville.- Chap. 40 Tabebuia avellanedae Lorentz ex Griseb.- Chap. 41 Uncaria tomentosa (Willd. ex Schult.) DC. and Uncaria guianensis (Aubl.) J.F. Gmell.- Chap. 42 Valeriana carnosa Sm.- Chap. 43 Ximenia americana L.

Ákos Máthé, Professor and Head of the Department of Botany, West-Hungarian University Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, Hungary He is the Chair of the section of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the International Society of Horticulture Science. He is Vice President of the International Council of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (member of IUBS) and President of the Hungariuan Horticultural Society. He is former editor of Herba Hungarica, Acta Agronomica Hungaric and presently editor of ICMAP Newsletter, member of the boar of editors of Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Haworth, Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology. His main research areas include botany and ecophysiology of medicinal and aromatic plants, diversification of horticultural production.
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque is graduate at Biological Sciences from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1993), master's at Plant Biology (Taxonomy and Ethnobotany)from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1996) and PhD at Plant Biology (Ethnobotany) from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2001). Currently he is professor of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil) where he coordinates the Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Social-Ecological Systems (LEA). He was presidente of the Brazilian Society of Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology (2005-2008). He acts in the areas of ecological anthropology, ethnobotany, biodiversity conservation, applied botany, ethnopharmacology and natural products. He has a special interest to the comprehension of the factors that modulate the relation between people and biota on the interface of ecology and evolutive processes. He is member of editorial board of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Etnomedicine (Deputy Editor), Economic Botany (Associate Editor) and  Ethnobiology and Conservation (co-Editor in Chief).
Umesh Patil has completed his PhD f

This book presents an overview of plants in South America with a focus on Brazil Contributions are from renown scientists Variety of coloured illustrations

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