Ephedraceae

W/C = Wild Collected

Ephedra andina Poepp. & Endl.

Common Name:
Family: Ephedraceae Dumort.

Country of Origin: Chile, Atacama Desert
Habitat: fog desert, lomas formation

Description: Plants found in plant communities known as lomas formations where a dense fog, locally known as camanchaca, nourishes plant communities.
More detail on Lomas Formations can be found at the Andean Botanical Information System website.
Although used for medicinal purposes in the past, ephedrine and pseudo-ephedrine have only been detectable in Eurasian species of Ephedra

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Accession Data:

Accession # 200100026
Source: Hortus Botanicus Nationalis
Provenance: Hortus Botanicus Nationalis - Laboratorium dendroflorae - Latvia - 2000 Index Seminum #55
Accession Date: 03-26-2001
Bench: 2216 - XER:Atacama Fog Desert
Qty: 1 confirmed on 01-31-2012

Classification:

Division: Gnetophyta
Class: Ephedropsida
SubClass: gnetophytes
Order: Ephedrales
SubOrder:
Family: Ephedraceae
SubFamily:
Tribe:
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References:

The Gymosperm Database
Andean Botanical Information System
Caveney et al., New observations on the secondary chemistry of world Ephedra (Ephedraceae), (American Journal of Botany. 2001;88:1199-1208.)

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Ephedraceae

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