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Ephedraceae

W/C = Wild Collected
Ephedra andina Poepp. & Endl.

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  • 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 12-12-2008
Classification:

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

  1. The Gymosperm Database
  2. Andean Botanical Information System
  3. 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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