Bituminaria morisiana

Bituminaria morisiana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Bituminaria
Species:
B. morisiana
Binomial name
Bituminaria morisiana
Synonyms

Psoralea morisiana Pignatti & Metlesics

Bituminaria morisiana is a perennial Mediterranean herb species in the genus Bituminaria. Leaf, trifoliate with 3 linear, lanceolate, tomentose leaflets. White flowers in globose flowerheads. Fruit a tomentose legume. Flowers May–July. It is endemic to Sardinia where it is restricted to high mountain areas, such as Monte Albo and Monte Corrasi.

The pterocarpans bitucarpin A and B can be isolated from the aerial parts of B. morisiana,[1] erybraedin C from the leaves[2] and morisianine is isolated from the seeds.[3]

See also

  • Giardino Montano Linasia in San Benedetto, Iglesias, Province of Carbonia-Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy
  • Fiori spontanei della Sardegna, Renato Brotzu, Quaderni di Natura Il Maestrale-Nuoro, 1998, Italia, ISBN 88-8610918-0

References

  1. ^ Pterocarpans from Bituminaria morisiana and Bituminaria morisiana. Dedicated to the memory of Professor Jeffrey B. Harborne. Luisa Pistelli, Cecilia Noccioli, Giovanni Appendino, Federica Bianchi, Olov Sterner and Mauro Ballero, Phytochemistry, Volume 64, Issue 2, September 2003, Pages 595-598, doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(03)00190-0
  2. ^ New cytotoxic prenylated isoflavonoids from Bituminaria morisiana. Cottiglia Filippo, Casu Laura, Bonsignore Leonardo, Casu Mariano, Floris Costantino, Leonti Marco, Gertsch Juerg and Heilmann Jörg, Planta medica 71 (3) (2005), pp. 254-260
  3. ^ A pterocarpan from the seeds of Bituminaria morisiana. Marco Leonti, Laura Casu, Jurg Gertsch, Leonardo Bonsignore, Costantino Floris, Mariano Casu and Filippo Cottiglia, J Nat Med (2010) 64:354–357, doi:10.1007/s11418-010-0408-7


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