There is a pink variety of this plant which can grow rapidly to 12 and puts out quite a show. Research article open access immunomodulatory effects of stachytarpheta cayennensis leaf extract and its synergistic effect with artesunate theophine c okoye1, peter a akah1, adaobi c ezike1, philip f uzor2, uchenna e odoh3, sebastian o igboeme4, uchechi b onwuka1 and sunday n okafor1 abstract. Stachytarpheta cayennensis health effects and herbal facts. How stachytarpheta jamaicensis is effective for various diseases is listed in repertory format. Dark blue snakeweed stachytarpheta cayennensis is regarded as an environmental weed in the northern territory, queensland and western australia. Two common very similar species of stachytarpheta cayennensis grow in the tropics and are use interchangeably and share the same common namesin the herbal medicine systems of many countries. In vivo antimalarial activity of ethanolic leaf extract of. Coarse perennial herbs 820 dm tall, sometimes somewhat woody toward base. Antimicrobial and antispasmodic activity of leaf extract and. Stachytarpheta jamaicensis is a species of plant in the family verbenaceae, native throughout the caribbean. Stachytarpheta cayennensis information from itis the integrated taxonomic information system itis provides authoritative taxonomic information on stachytarpheta cayennensis, as well as other plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of north america and the world. Evaluation of antimicrobial, antioxidant and phototoxic. Stachytarpheta species, blue porterweed, blue rats tail.
The species with pink ro read flowers is the exotic stachytarpheta mutabilis, which is native to south america and not florida. Cayenne porterweed stachytarpheta cayennensis has blue or white flowers and hairless flower stalks and lower leaf surfaces. The results can also be downloaded as a csv file unicode utf8 encoding see status, confidence level, source for definitions. The atlas of florida plants provides a source of information for the distribution of plants within the state and taxonomic information. Vahl is a member of the family of verbenaceae and is commonly known as gervao, brazilian tea, verbena cimarrona, rooter comb, or blue porter weed 1, 7. Uses, benefits, cures, side effects, nutrients in stachytarpheta jamaicensis. Starr32691stachytarpheta cayennensishabit with superbrood lots of nene goslings with kolea in backgroundcrater hill kilauea pt nwrkauai 25183247776. The extract and fractions of stachytarpheta cayennensis possessed both antibacterial and antispasmodic effects confirming the claimed use in folkloric medicine for wound healing and gastrointestinal ulceration. Wikimedia commons has media related to stachytarpheta cayennensis stachytarpheta cayennensis is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family known by many english language common names, including blue snakeweed, cayenne snakeweed, darkblue snakeweed, bluetop, nettleleaf porterweed, rattail, roughleaf false vervain, blue rats tail, brazilian tea, cayenne vervain, false verbena, joee. Kandikandilaan, bastard vervain, stachytarpheta jamaicensis. Research article open access immunomodulatory effects of. Some extracts showed an ic 50 stachytarpheta cayennensis, tessaria integrifolia and virola calophylla. But like ive mentioned above it is hard to distinguish those two species and their many hybrids that often dominate the landscape. Stachytarpheta jamaicensis herb uses, benefits, cures.
Light blue snakeweed stachytarpheta jamaicensis also hybridises with other species, and hybrids between it and both dark blue snakeweed stachytarpheta cayennensis and pink snakeweed stachytarpheta mutabilis have also become naturalised in queensland. Brief description amanda spooner, tuesday 14 august 2007. Stachytarpheta cayennensis in the plant list version 1. We also thank silvina soria and gerardo berton for joining fieldtrips and. Click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles. The following databases may contain further information on this name.
Immunomodulatory effects of stachytarpheta cayennensis. Vahl show all show tabs cayenne porterweed general information. Phytochemical screening and bioevaluation of medicinal. Photo of the entire plant of blue porterweed stachytarpheta cayennensis posted by plantladylin. Stachytarpheta jamaicensis herb uses, benefits, cures, side. Stachytarpheta cayennensis stcdi stachytarpheta frantzii stcfr stachytarpheta jamaicensis stcja.
Branched porterweed stachytarpheta australis has pale blue or white flowers and hairy flower stalks and lower leaf surfaces. Stachytarpheta cayennensis, antioxidant, antimicrobial, phototoxicity, arylpropanoid glycosides, betulinic acid. Asian pacific journal of tropical medicine 2010189192. Leaves opposite, membranous, elliptic to broadly elliptic or ovate, 48 cm long, 24. In vivo antimalarial activity of ethanolic leaf extract of stachytarpheta.
The genus stachytarpheta contains about 65 species, mostly from the american tropics. It is one of the important plants with high medicinal and nutraceutical benefits. This plant can seed a little too freely so give it lots of elbow room. Research article open access immunomodulatory effects of stachytarpheta cayennensis leaf extract and its synergistic effect with artesunate theophine c okoye1, peter a akah1, adaobi c ezike1, philip f uzor2, uchenna e odoh3, sebastian o igboeme4. Research article open access immunomodulatory effects. Dark blue snakeweed stachytarpheta cayennensis also hybridises with other species, and hybrids between it and both light blue snakeweed stachytarpheta jamaicensis and pink snakeweed stachytarpheta mutabilis have also become naturalised in queensland. Stachytarpheta urticifolia was described by john sims in 1816 from plants cultivated in london by john walker. The results can also be downloaded as a csv file unicode utf8 encoding. Manual removal of seedlings by hand can be effective for small populations, ensuring the large roots are also removed. Provides authoritative information on the flora of western australia. The genus stachytarpheta was described by vahl 1804 with twelve south american. Stachytarpheta cayennensis belongs to the family verbenaceae, commonly known. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license.
The majority of the information on the identity, purity and quality of the plant material can be obtained from its. Ipni nomenclature info for stachytarpheta cayennensis. Brine shrimp motility assay of stachytarpheta indica stem and leaf extracts. Request pdf pharmacological study of stachytarpheta cayennensis vahl in rodents freezedried aqueous extracts aes, 0. The dark blue porterweed stachytarpheta cayennensis is a great addition to any butterfly plant. Vahl belongs to the family of verbenaceae and is commonly known as gervao, brazilian tea, verbena cimarrona, rooter comb, or blue porter weed. In order to identify most interesting extracts, we also took into consideration mechanism of action besides activity levels. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Stem and leaves younger stems are greenish or purpletinged, mostly hairless i. Stachytarpheta cayennensis is a rather slender, branched herb or shrub growing up to 1.
Antibacterial and molecular docking studies of bioactive. Stachytarpheta cayennensis can be a noxious weed and is listed as a category ii nonnative invasive plant by the florida exotic pest plant council. Stachytarpheta species, jamaican porterweed stachytarpheta. Sudeep ranjan sahoo, rashmi ranjan dash and sunita bhatnagar medicinal and aromatic plants, regional plant resource centre, nayapalli, bhubaneswar751015, india correspondence should be. This plant mostly grows in the tropical regions of america, as well as in the subtropical forests of africa, asia, and oceania. Stachytarpheta cayennensis verbenaceae hear species info.
Understanding its invasion under tropical conditions. Antimicrobial and antispasmodic activity of leaf extract. Verbenaceae stachytarpheta cayennensis stachytarpheta cayennensis vahl verbenaceae. Sahoo and others published phytochemical screening and bioevaluation of medicinal plant. The original provenance of walkers plants were unknown. Rich verbenaceae as well as to ascertain the antispasmodic effects of the me and the various fractions hf, ef and mf on acetylcholine ach and histamine h induced contractions on isolated guinea pig ileum. Cayenne snakeweed stachytarpheta cayennensis has stems and leaves similar to the dark blue snakeweed, but the flowers are pale blue to white. Taxonomic significance of morphological characters in the. It has many common names including blue porterweed, blue snake weed, bastard vervain, brazilian tea, jamaica vervain, and lightblue snakeweed.
Due to close association between inflammatory and immune responses, we evaluated the immunomodulatory activity of leaves extract of s. Antiprotozoal activity of medicinal plants used by iquitos. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. These hybrids exhibit characters that are intermediate between the two species involved. The morphoanatomical and preliminary phytochemical evaluation of stachytarpheta jamaicensis l vahl. Plants profile for stachytarpheta cayennensis cayenne. Flowers were sessile in all three species of stachytarpheta. Stachytarpheta australis and pink snakeweed stachytarpheta mutabilis. Ge rmination and emergence of stachytarpheta cayennensis and ipom oea. General information stachytarpheta jamaicensis is a wellbranched. Stachytarpheta urticifolia, stachytarpheta urticifolia sims, bot.
Immunomodulatory effects of stachytarpheta cayennensis leaf. Stachytarpheta cayennensis is a weedy distributed herbaceous plant from the verbenaceae family commonly called brazilian tea. Flowers in a terminal spike, embedded in the rachis, which is mm diameter. Philippine herbal medicine an illustrated compilation of medicinal plants in the philippines by dr godofredo stuart, with botanical information, chemical properties, folkloric uses and medicinal studies. Rich vahl is a weedy and sometimes perennial herbaceous plant from the verbenaceae family commonly called brazilian tea.
The only native porterweed is stachytarpheta jamaicensis, which has blue to purple flowers. List of various diseases cured by stachytarpheta jamaicensis. Stachytarpheta is a genus of about 3 species in the verbenaceae, distributed mainly in tropical america atkins, 2005. In addition, leaf shape, leaf base, leaf tip and leaf blade was also studied. An excellent, if rather terse, guide to the traditional medicinal uses.
Phytochemical screening and bioevaluation of medicinal plant stachytarpheta indical. Hypoglycaemic constituents of stachytarpheta cayennensis leaf. The plants database includes the following 11 species of stachytarpheta. Be sure to purchase your plants from trusted sources to ensure you are getting the native species. Pharmacological study of stachytarpheta cayennensis vahl. Brazilian tea, blue rats tail, snakeweed griffiths rattail verveine, wild broom wong cent. Dunlop 1987 listed four species from northern territory. Stachytarpheta jamaicensis is used in the bahamas to treat issues of circulation high blood pressure, the gastrointestinal tract worms, constipation, the respiratory system, blistersboils, chills, and fevers. Hypoglycaemic constituents of stachytarpheta cayennensis leaf article in planta medica 733. In the lesser antilles it is boiled to treat colds and fevers.
No information is available on chromosome numbers of stachytarpheta spp. Names of stachytarpheta jamaicensis in various languages of the world are also given. Verbenaceae have been reported to possess potent antiinflammatory and antimalarial activities. Morphoanatomical and preliminary phytochemical studies. Pdf phytochemical screening and bioevaluation of medicinal. Pharmacological study of stachytarpheta cayennensis vahl in rodents. This variety of blue porterweed is an upright perennial growing to 3 feet in height with branching stems, a woody base and long tap root. The website also provides access to a database and images of herbarium specimens found at the university of south florida and other herbaria. Phytochemical screening and bioevaluation of medicinal plant. The structure of compound isolated from stachytarpheta cayennensis leaves was elucidated using a combination of ir, 1 h and c nmr, cosy, dept nmr, mass spectral and comparison with similar. The nonnative stachytarpheta cayennensis is often mistaken for the native s. These species can be distinguished by the following differences. Stachytarpheta cayennensis is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family known by many english language common names, including blue snakeweed, cayenne snakeweed, darkblue snakeweed, bluetop, nettleleaf porterweed, rattail, roughleaf false vervain, blue rats tail, brazilian tea, cayenne vervain, false verbena, joee, nettleleaf velvetberry, and cayenne porterweed. Pdf isolation and characterisation of compound from.
Pharmacological study of stachytarpheta cayennensis vahl in. Pink snakeweed stachytarpheta mutabilis looks very similar to a giant version of dark blue snakeweed growing to 2. There is no pink or red flowered variety of this native. Stachytarpheta australis moldenke, stachytarpheta cayennensis rich. Two common very similar species of stachytarpheta cayennensis grow in the tropics and are used interchangeably and share the same common names in the herbal medicine systems of many countries. Stachytarpheta patens moldenke 1980 stachytarpheta cayennensis f. Please click on any button to follow a link to that database. It was introduced widely introduced into several tropical countries around the world as an ornamental species due to its attractive blue flowers, but in some countries it has become invasive. Aug 14, 2007 provides authoritative information on the flora of western australia. Stachytarpheta jamaicensis usually create wide small shrub up to around 80cm hight and even over 1m width, while stachytarpheta cayennensis is more robust and can reach well over 1,5 m height. A downloadable pdf document of a book in prepublication awaiting illustration.
This page was last edited on 19 january 2015, at 22. Stachytarpheta guatemalensis moldenke stachytarpheta guatemalensis f. The genus stachytarpheta has undergone a series of taxonomic revisions that are further complicated by putative hybrids wilson et al. See status, confidence level, source for definitions.