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Species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
Baccharis articulata is a species of shrub in the family
Asteraceae .
[2]
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
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"Baccharis articulata " .
Plants of the World Online .
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 25 October 2021 .
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b
c
"Baccharis articulata " at the
Encyclopedia of Life
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b
"Hortipedia - Baccharis articulata " . fr.hortipedia.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-10-21 .
^ 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 .
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a
b 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 .
^ 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 .
^ Alvarez, María Alejandra (2019-09-06).
Pharmacological Properties of Native Plants from Argentina . Springer Nature. pp. 92–93.
ISBN
978-3-030-20198-2 .
^ Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson; Santos, Jean Carlos (2014-06-26).
Neotropical Insect Galls . Springer. p. 195.
ISBN
978-94-017-8783-3 .
^
"Distribution, vernacular names, folk medicinal uses and tested biological activity of Baccharis species" . scielo.org.co . SciELO Colombia. Retrieved 25 October 2021 .
^ Singh, Amritpal (2016-04-19).
Compendia of World's Medicinal Flora .
CRC Press . p. 90.
ISBN
978-1-4398-4301-7 .
Baccharis articulata Conyza articulata