LLARETA (AZORELLA-COMPACTA, UMBELLIFERAE) - A REVIEW

Authors
WICKENS GE
Citation
Ge. Wickens, LLARETA (AZORELLA-COMPACTA, UMBELLIFERAE) - A REVIEW, Economic botany, 49(2), 1995, pp. 207-212
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
Economic botany → ACNP
ISSN journal
00130001
Volume
49
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
207 - 212
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-0001(1995)49:2<207:L(U-AR>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
A yellowish-green, compact (rather like a cauliflower), resinous cushi on shrub, the Ilareta, Azorella compacta (Embelliferae) occurs in the high Andes of southern Peru, Bolivia, northeastern Chile and northwest ern Argentina. Now endangered through excessive cutting for fuel, it i s widely used in local medicines and may even have a pharmaceutical po tential for treating diabetes.