Vicoa

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Vicoa
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Vicoa indica (formerly Pentanema indicum)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Vicoa
Cass.
Type species

Vicoa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to elecampane tribe within the Asteraceae (sunflower family). [1] It is found in parts of Africa and stretching across Asia to Indochina. It was described by Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (Cass.) in 1829, but the genus was later absorbed into the Pentanema genus (also within the Asteraceae family). Until molecular analysis in 2018, determined it was a separate genus.

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Description

They are annual or perennial herbs, [2] with simple (undivided or unsegmented), [3] or entire (not divided) leaves. [2] The leaves are arranged alternate (at different levels along the stem), [2] [3] with pinnately veining (lateral veins are arranged either side of the main vein) and they are mostly amplexicaule (the base is dilated and clasping the stem) at the base. [2] They have flowers which have solitary, [2] radiate heads (ray floret surrounding disc florets), [2] [3] which are either axillary (beside a leaf joint) or leaf opposed. [2] They have a peduncle (flower stalk), [2] and involucral bracts which are inbricate (overlapping) in several rows. [3] The achenes (one-seeded indehiscent fruit) are subterete (partially circular in cross-section) with a pappus (a tuft or ring of hairs or scales borne above the ovary) of unequal bristles. [3]

Known species

There are about 14 accepted species; [1]

Some species are still to be accepted, such as Vicoa gokhalei from India. [4]

Taxonomy

The genus name of Vicoa is in honour of Giambattista Vico (1668–1744), an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment. [5] It was first described and published in Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) Vol.17 on page 418 in 1829. [1]

It was then absorbed into the genus of Pentanema , until in 2018, the Vicoa genus was re-established due to molecular analysis of the Pentanema genus. [6]

Range

It is native to parts of Africa and Asia. From the island of Cape Verde, (Macaronesia), then the African countries of; Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Parts of Western Asia; Afghanistan and Iran. Central Asia; Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. China; south-central and southeast China and Tibet. Indian subcontinent; East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and West Himalaya. Lastly, parts of Indochina; Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. [1]

Uses

Some species such as Vicoa indica have used in folk medicine, in the Himalayas. [2] [7] [8] The roots were used to treat kidney troubles and the leaves were used for stomach problems. [9]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Gyanendra Pandey (Sri Satguru Publications, 1994) Uncommon Plant Drugs of Ayurveda , p. 71, at Google Books
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 James P. Mandaville Flora Of Eastern Saudi Arabia (2013) , p. 291, at Google Books
  4. ↑ Gosavi, Kumar Vinod Chhotupuri; Madhav, Nilesh Appaso; Chandore, Arun Nivrutti; Kambale, Sharad Suresh; Yadav, Shrirang Ramchandra (17 November 2020). "Vicoa gokhalei (Inuleae, Asteraceae), a new species from the northern Western Ghats, India". Phytotaxa. 471 (3): 11. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.471.3.11. S2CID   228809223.
  5. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN   978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID   187926901 . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  6. ↑ Gutierrez-Larruscain, D., Vicente, M.S., Anderberg, A.A., Rico, E. & Martínez-Ortega, M.M. (2018) "Phylogeny of the Inula group (Asteraceae: Inuleae): Evidence from nuclear and plastid genomes and a recircumscription of Pentanema". Taxon 67 (1): 149–164.
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