Marsdenia cundurango

Marsdenia cundurango
Marsdenia cundurango[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Genus: Marsdenia
Species: M. cundurango
Binomial name
Marsdenia cundurango
Rchb.f.

Marsdenia cundurango is a species of plant of the genus Marsdenia with the common name Condurango. It is native to Peru and Ecuador in South America.[2][3]

Marsdenia cundurango is known to contain conduritol, a cyclitol or cyclic polyol. It was first isolated in 1908 by K. Kübler from the bark of the vine.[4]

References

  1. 1887 illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler - Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen
  2. Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Catalog of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i–viii, 1–1181
  3. Tropicos
  4. Marsdenia condurango on www.crescentbloom.com


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/6/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.