Flora of Dominica, Part 2: Dicotyledoneae

Nicolson, Dan H.; DeFilipps, Robert A.; Nicolson, A.

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“…The species accounts for about 5% of the world's cotton market and is prized for having the longest, highest quality fiber [67]. In Dominica plants grow cultivated and as escapes [68]. …”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome

Quinlan

2010

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Background"Fright" is an English-speaking Caribbean idiom for an illness, or ethnomedical syndrome, of persistent distress. A parallel ethnopsychiatric idiom exists in the French Antilles as sésisma. Fright is distinct from susto among Hispanics, though both develop in the wake of traumatic events. West Indian ethnophysiology (ethnoanatomy) theorizes that an overload of stressful emotions (fear, panic, anguish or worry) causes a cold humoral state in which blood coagulates causing prolonged distress and increased risks of other humorally cold illnesses.MethodsQualitative data on local explanatory models and treatment of fright were collected using participant-observation, informal key informant interviews and a village health survey. Ethnobotanical and epidemiological data come from freelist (or "free-list") tasks, analyzed for salience, with nearly all adults (N = 112) of an eastern village in Dominica, and a village survey on medicinal plant recognition and use (N = 106).ResultsAlong with prayer and exercise, three herbs are salient fright treatments: Gossypium barbadense L., Lippia micromera Schauer, and, Plectranthus [Coleus] amboinicus [Loureiro] Sprengel. The survey indicated that 27% of village adults had medicated themselves for fright. Logistic regression of fright suffering onto demographic variables of age, education, gender, parental status and wealth measured in consumer goods found age to be the only significant predictor of having had fright. The probability of having (and medicating for) fright thus increases with every year.ConclusionsWhile sufferers are often uncomfortable recalling personal fright experiences, reporting use of medicinal plants is less problematic. Inquiry on fright medical ethnobotany (or phytotherapies) serves as a proxy measurement for fright occurrence. Cross-cultural and ethnopharmacology literature on the medicinal plants suggests probable efficacy in accord with Dominican ethnomedical notions of fright. Further, the cultural salience and beliefs about these medicines may give these medications extra psychoneuroimmune (i.e. mind-body) benefits, or placebo-like effects, for this stress-related folk illness.

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“…The species accounts for about 5% of the world's cotton market and is prized for having the longest, highest quality fiber [67]. In Dominica plants grow cultivated and as escapes [68]. …”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome

Quinlan

2010

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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“…Haiti: Barker & Dardeau, 1930. Dominican Republic: Moscoso, 1943Jiménez, 1967Puerto Rico Stahl, 1883-1888Britton & Wilson, 1923-26 (the most complete floristic treatment for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands); Liogier, 1985Liogier, -1997; Little & Wadsworth, 1964;Little et al, 1974 (trees); Proctor, 1989 Flora of the Lesser Antilles (Howard, 1974(Howard, -1989; Flora of the Netherlands Antilles (Stoffers, 1962(Stoffers, -1966; Flore illustree des phanerogames de Guadeloupe et de Martinique (Fournet, 1978); Flora phanerogamique des Antilles Françaises (Duss, 1897); Flora of Barbados (Gooding et al, 1965), Flora of Dominica (Hodge, 1954;Nicolson, 1991); St. Bartholomew (Questel, 1941); The Grenadines (Howard, 1952) Olmstead (2004) presents an excellent review of the historical biogeography of Caribbean plants. They compared the West Indies floristic diversity to other archipelagos of the world and provided estimates of diversity and endemism for the Caribbean as a whole and for the individual islands.…”

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Floristic Richness and Affinities in the West Indies

Acevedo‐Rodríguez

Strong

2008

Bot. Rev

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Comparison of the common floristic elements between the West Indies and the surrounding continents shows a mosaic of affinities that are stronger to Central America and South America as a whole than with either one of them separately or with North America. However, since only 28% of the total West Indian seed plant flora is shared with other geographic regions of the world, the referred exercise is of limited value. Numerous tables are provided to show the distribution of genera throughout the archipelago. The application of phylogenetic studies into the service of biogeography is herein regarded as the next necessary step in elucidating the origins and affinities of the West Indian flora.Resumen El estudio comparativo de los elementos florísticos que existen en común entre las Indias Occidentales y los continentes circundantes muestran un mosaico de afinidades más cercanas a Centro América y Sur América en su totalidad, que con cualquiera de ellos por separado o con Norte América. Sin embargo, este estudio es de valor limitado ya que solo el 28% del total de la flora de plantas con semillas en las Indias Occidentales es compartido con otras regiones del mundo. En este estudio, se muestran numerosas tablas resumiendo los valores de endemismos, la distribución de los géneros dentro y fuera del archipiélago, así como los géneros más especiosos. La utilización de estudios filogenéticos al servicio de la biogeografía en las Indias Occidentales es considerado como el próximo paso esencial para la elucidación del origen y de las afinidades de la flora Antillana.

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“…No Brasil, está distribuída em estados das Regiões Norte e Nordeste e em toda a Região Sudeste e Sul (Mathias & Theobald 1981;Nicolson et al 1991;. H8, J8, K8: Floresta Ombrófila Densa Submontana e Montana.…”

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Flora da Bahia: Menispermaceae

Teixeira¹,

Amorim²

2012

Sitientibus sér. Ci. Biol.

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Resumo -É apresentado o levantamento florístico de Menispermaceae da Bahia, Brasil, como contribuição ao conhecimento da flora do estado. Foram reconhecidos 22 táxons, sendo apresentadas chaves analíticas de identificação, descrições, comentários, mapas de distribuição e ilustrações das espécies. São fornecidas pela primeira vez a descrição e ilustração de caracteres reprodutivos de Curarea crassa (flores fem.), Odontocarya duckei (flores masc.) e Sciadotenia pubistaminea (frutos). Abuta selloana e Disciphania ernstii representam novos registros para a Bahia. Uma espécie de Cissampelos permanece não identificada, mas suas afinidades morfológicas são aqui discutidas. Palavras-chaves adicionais: Chondrodendron, Cissampelos, florística, Nordeste brasileiro, taxonomia. MENISPERMACEAELianas, às vezes arbustos eretos ou escandentes, raramente ervas ou árvores, perenes; caule cilíndrico ou achatado, tricomas simples; estípulas ausentes. Folhas alternas, geralmente simples, às vezes peltadas, pecioladas; venação geralmente palmatinérvea, com 3-12 nervuras principais, às vezes peninérvea. Inflorescências estaminadas e pistiladas axilares a supra-axilares ou caulifloras, geralmente racemosas, paniculadas, tirsiformes, algumas vezes cimosas no ápice, raro flores solitárias ou aos pares. Flores pequenas, unissexuadas (plantas dioicas), mono ou diclamídeas. Flores masculinas com sépalas (1)3-12 ou mais, livres ou conatas, em 2 ou mais séries; pétalas menores que as sépalas, 1-6 ou ausentes, livres ou conatas; estames (1-)3-6 ou mais, livres ou conatos (sinândrio), anteras com deiscência rimosa ou transversal. Flores femininas com sépalas e pétalas geralmente como nas flores masc., menos numerosas e ramificadas; estaminódios presentes ou ausentes; gineceu apocárpico, carpelos 3, 6 ou mais raro l, estigma terminal, inteiro ou lobado, ovário súpero, óvulos 2 por lóculo, 1 abortivo, placentação pêndula. Frutos drupáceos, frutículos

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Flora of Dominica, Part 2: Dicotyledoneae

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Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome

Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome

Floristic Richness and Affinities in the West Indies

Flora da Bahia: Menispermaceae

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