Piper amalago

Folia et flores Piper amalago

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Plantae — Angiospermae

Magnoliidae 
Ordo : Piperales 
Familia : Piperaceae 
Genus : Piper 
Species : P. amalago 
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Piper amalago (binomen a Linnaeo anno 1753 statutum), Navatlace mecaxochitl, est planta scandens generis Piperis, in America media et australi sponte crescens, propter usus medicinales in Mexico et alibi pabulata. Aroma ad socolatam accommodandam adhibitum est.

Bibliographia

Fontes antiquiores

• 1658 : Iacobus Bontius; Gulielmus Piso, ed., De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri (Amstelaedami: apud Elzevirios) textus (pars iii p. 200 apud Google Books) ("nova ... piperis species, mecaxochitl")
• 1753 : Carolus Linnaeus, Species plantarum (Holmiae: impensis L. Salvii, 1753) vol. 1 p. 29 (Latine): vide "Piper amalago" apud The Linnean Collections

Eruditio recentior

• Sophie D. Coe, America's First Cuisines (Austinopoli: University of Texas Press, 1994) p. 104
• Lee Dyer, Aparna Palmer, Piper: A Model Genus for Studies of Phytochemistry, Ecology, and Evolution. Novi Eboraci: Kluwer, 2004 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
• T. H. Fleming, "Fecundity, fruiting pattern, and seed dispersal in Piper amalago (Piperaceae), a bat-dispersed tropical shrub" in Oecologia vol. 51 (1981) pp. 42-46 Epitome
• Martha Mullally, "Anxiolytic activity and active principles of Piper amalago (Piperaceae), a medicinal plant used by the Q'eqchi' Maya to treat susto, a culture-bound illness" in Journal of Ethnopharmacology vol. 185 (2016( pp. 147-154 Epitome
• Vera L.P. dos Santos et al., "Anatomical investigations of Piper amalago (jaborandi-manso) for the quality control" in Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia vol.25 no.2 (2015)

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Piper amalago spectant.

Vide "Piper amalago" apud Vicispecies.

• Martha Mullally, Anxiety-Reducing Tropical Plants: Phytochemical and Pharmacological Characterization of Souroubea sympetala and Piper amalago (dissertatio, 2011)