Plumbago pulchella

Plumbago pulchella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Plumbaginaceae
Genus: Plumbago
Species: P. pulchella
Binomial name
Plumbago pulchella

Plumbago pulchella, with the common name Cola de iguana, is a plant species in the genus Plumbago.[1]

The plant species is endemic to more than 20 states in Mexico.[1]

Medicinal uses

Pulchellidin, an O-methylated anthocyanidin, can be found in Plumbago pulchella.[2]

It is a traditional medicinal plant in Mesoamerica, including of the Rarámuri people in northwestern Mexico.[3]

In Michoacán it is used as a veterinary medicine.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Conabio.gob.mx: ficha informativa para Plumbago pulchella−(in Spanish)
  2. ↑ Pulchellidin on metabolomics.jp
  3. ↑ Google Books: Tarahumara Medicine: Ethnobotany and Healing Among the Rarámuri of Mexico; by Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón, Alfonso Paredes; University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.


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