Baccharis articulata

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Baccharis articulata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Baccharis
Species:
B. articulata
Binomial name
Baccharis articulata
Synonyms [1]
  • Baccharis diptera Sch.Bip. ex Baker
  • Cacalia sessilis Vell.
  • Conyza articulata Lam.
  • Molina articulata Less.
  • Pingraea articulata (Lam.) F.H.Hellw.

Baccharis articulata is a species of shrub in the family Asteraceae. [2] also known as carqueja.

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The species was first described by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, but was later reclassified by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1807. [3] The species is used for a variety of medical uses and is also native to parts of South America.

Medical uses

It is used in traditional folk medicine for liver diseases. [4] It has also been traditionally used to treat digestive disorders and urinary infections. [5] In Brazil the plant is used to treat diarrhea in cattle. [6]

Distribution

It is native to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. [5] It can be found in the Paranaese forest. [7] It was also introduced to Spain. [1]

Flowers

Like almost all baccharis species, Baccharis articulata is dioecious [8] with unisexual flowers. The flowers are visited by Discodon , Apis mellifera , Lucilia sericata, and Ruizantheda divaricata . [2]

In August and September, the plant has multi-petal flowers which are pale greenish yellow. [3]

Common names

In Portuguese, the species goes by the common name carqueja-branca, carqueja-doce, and carquejinha. [2] [9]

In English, it goes by the common name salt water false willow. [10]

References

  1. 1 2 "Baccharis articulata". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Baccharis articulata". The Encyclopedia of Life .
  3. 1 2 "Hortipedia - Baccharis articulata". fr.hortipedia.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  4. ↑ Fleurentin, Jacques; d'ethnopharmacologie, Société française (1991). Ethnopharmacologie: sources, méthodes, objectifs : actes du 1er Colloque européen d'ethnopharmacologie, Metz, Centre Internationale des Congrès, 23-25 mars 1990 (in French). IRD Editions. p. 357. ISBN   978-2-7099-1038-5.
  5. 1 2 Torres, Cristina Vanesa; Domínguez, María Julia; Carbonari, José Luis; Sabini, María Carola; Sabini, Liliana Inés; Zanon, Silvia Matilde (2011-07-01). "Study of Antiviral and Virucidal Activities of Aqueous Extract of Baccharis Articulata against Herpes suis virus". Natural Product Communications. 6 (7): 993–994. doi: 10.1177/1934578X1100600717 . ISSN   1934-578X. PMID   21834241. S2CID   20056220.
  6. ↑ Duke, James A. (2008-10-24). Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America. CRC Press. pp. 85–86. ISBN   978-1-4200-4317-4.
  7. ↑ Alvarez, María Alejandra (2019-09-06). Pharmacological Properties of Native Plants from Argentina. Springer Nature. pp. 92–93. ISBN   978-3-030-20198-2.
  8. ↑ Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson; Santos, Jean Carlos (2014-06-26). Neotropical Insect Galls. Springer. p. 195. ISBN   978-94-017-8783-3.
  9. ↑ "Distribution, vernacular names, folk medicinal uses and tested biological activity of Baccharis species". scielo.org.co. SciELO Colombia. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  10. ↑ Singh, Amritpal (2016-04-19). Compendia of World's Medicinal Flora. CRC Press. p. 90. ISBN   978-1-4398-4301-7.
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