Quassia L.
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Whole plant: Febrifuge. A source of quassia chips, once used in bitters. Stem: Bark used in wourali (curare) poison in Guyana.
Picrasma excelsa is a species of Picrasma in the family Simaroubaceae. It is found in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Areces-Mallea, A.E. (1998). "Picrasma excelsa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
- ^ "Picrasma excelsa (Sw.) Planch.". The Plant List. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
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French Guiana: bois Saint-Martin. Guyana: urariwong.
Aeschrion excelsum (Swartz) Kuntze; Picraena excelsa (Swartz) Lindley; Quassia excelsa Swartz
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:37
Specimens with Sequences:31
Specimens with Barcodes:28
Species:6
Species With Barcodes:5
Public Records:11
Public Species:2
Public BINs:0
A single population, now thought to be extinct, was once recorded from El Sabalo in Pinar del Ro Province, Cuba, where the habitat has largely been deforested. Elsewhere in the Greater Antilles, the species and habitat have also suffered from overcutting. A record exists from northern Venezuela.
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Quassia (/ˈkwɒʃə/ or /ˈkwɒʃiə/) is a flora genus in the family Simaroubaceae. Its size is disputed; some botanists treat it as consisting of only one species, Quassia amara from tropical South America, while others treat it in a wide circumscription as a pantropical genus containing up to 40 species of trees and shrubs. The genus was named after a former slave from Surinam, Graman Quassi in the eighteenth century. He discovered the medicinal properties of the bark of Quassia amara.
Broader treatments of the genus include the following and other species:
- Quassia africana
- Quassia amara
- Quassia arnhemensis Craven & Dunlop- Australia
- Quassia bidwillii
- Quassia indica
- Quassia sp. 'Moonee Creek' - Australia
- Quassia sp. 'Mount Nardi' - Australia
- Quassia undulata
It is the source of the quassinoids quassin and neo-quassin.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ Mishra K, Chakraborty D, Pal A, Dey N (April 2010). "Plasmodium falciparum: in vitro interaction of quassin and neo-quassin with artesunate, a hemisuccinate derivative of artemisinin". Exp. Parasitol. 124 (4): 421–7. doi:10.1016/j.exppara.2009.12.007. PMID 20036657.
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