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    Marsdenia cundurango

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    Short description: Species of plant

    Marsdenia cundurango
    Marsdenia cundurango1.jpg
    Marsdenia cundurango[1]
    Scientific classification edit
    Kingdom: Plantae
    Clade: Tracheophytes
    Clade: Angiosperms
    Clade: Eudicots
    Clade: Asterids
    Order: Gentianales
    Family: Apocynaceae
    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

    Wikidata ☰ Q9359009 entry





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