Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America

1. Front Matter

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2. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America

   1. Front Matter

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   2. South American Biodiversity and Its Potential in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

      • Alissandra Trajano Nunes, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

      Pages 3-15

   3. 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

3. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Brazil

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Introduction to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Brazil

      • Ákos Máthé, José Crisólogo de Sales Silva

      Pages 47-69

   3. Medicinal Plants and State Policy in South America: The Case of Colonial Brazil

      • Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros

      Pages 71-78

4. Selected Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Brazil

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Achyrocline satureioides (Lam.) DC.

      • Gabriela Granghelli Gonçalves, Maria Izabela Ferreira, Lin Chau Ming

      Pages 81-88

   3. Adiantum raddianum C. Presl.

      • Rafael Corrêa Prota dos Santos Reinaldo, Ivanilda Soares Feitosa, Augusto César Pessôa Santiago, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

      Pages 89-96

   4. Aloysia citriodora Palau

      • Julio Alberto Hurrell

      Pages 97-108

   5. Anemopaegma arvense (Vell.) Stellfeld ex De Souza

      • Fúlvio Rieli Mendes, Luis Carlos Marques

      Pages 109-119

   6. 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

   7. Baccharis trimera (Less.) DC.

      • Daniel Garcia, Marcos Roberto Furlan, Lin Chau Ming

      Pages 129-138

   8. Bauhinia forficata Link

      • Valdir Cechinel Filho

      Pages 139-143

   9. 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

   10. 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

   11. Clinopodium gilliesii (Benth.) Kuntze

       • Julio Alberto Hurrell

       Pages 163-172

   12. Croton zehntneri Pax & K. Hoffm (Euphorbiaceae)

       • Jackson Roberto Guedes da Silva Almeida, Ana Carolina Murta Ramalho, Fernanda Guerra da Silveira

       Pages 173-182

   13. Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf

       • Wendy Marisol Torres-Avilez, Flávia dos Santos Silva, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

       Pages 183-196

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.

• Aromatic
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Medicinal
• Plants

• Departamento de Botânica, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

  Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

• Natural Product Research Laboratory, Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar, India

  Umesh Patil

• Department of Botany, Faculty of Agriculture & Food Science, West Hungarian University, Mosonmagyarovar, Hungary

  Ákos Máthé

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 from Dr H S Gour Vishwavidyalaya (University), Sagar and Postdoctoral studies from Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Currently he is serving as Professor of Pharmacognosy and General Secretary to Indian Society of Pharmacognosy (ISP). He is Editor of Indian Journal of Natural Products and News Letters of ISP and ICMAP. He has been serving as Editorial Board Member of many reputed journals. His area of specialization is Herbal Drug Technology, Ethnopharmacology and Phytomedicines. He is the recipient of 7 prestigious awards given in the field of HMPs and remained BOYSCAST Fellow of DST, Govt of India. He is Board Member of International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ICMAP) and Member of many professional bodies including International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), International Society of Ethno-Pharmacology (ISE), International Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA), International Pharmaceutical Students Federation, International Society of Natural Product Development, APTI, IPA, IPGA, ISTE and IAHP.

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