Biology:Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
Stachytarpheta jamaicensis florida.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Verbenaceae
Genus: Stachytarpheta
Species:
S. jamaicensis
Binomial name
Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
(L.) Vahl
Synonyms[2]
  • Abena jamaicensis (L.) Hitchc.
  • Stachytarpheta bogoriensis Zoll. & Moritzi
  • Stachytarpheta pilosiuscula Kunth
  • Valerianoides jamaicense (L.) Kuntze
  • Valerianoides jamaicense (L.) Medik.
  • Valerianoides jamaicensis (L.) Medik.
  • Verbena americana Mill.
  • Verbena jamaicensis L.
  • Verbena pilosiuscula (Kunth) Endl.
  • Vermicularia decurrens Moench nom. illeg.
  • Zappania jamaicensis (L.) Lam.
Parantica aglea on Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

Stachytarpheta jamaicensis is a species of plant in the family Verbenaceae, native throughout the Caribbean,[3] including Florida.[4] It has many common names including blue porterweed, blue snake weed, bastard vervain, Brazilian tea, Jamaica vervain,[5] light-blue snakeweed,[6] and, in St. Croix, worryvine.source? It usually is found along country roadsides, and it also grows well as a ruderal plant on disturbed terrain.

A similar plant, Stachytarpheta cayennensis, which is an invasive species in Florida,[7] is sometimes mistaken for S. jamaicensis.[8]

It is unclear whether S. indica is a separate species.[9]

Medicinal uses

The fresh leaves are consumed in bush tea as a “cooling” tonic and blood cleanser, to treat “asthma” and “ulcerated stomachs”.[10]

Tea brewed from this species has been shown to cause a dose-dependent "fall in [the] blood pressure" of normal rabbits. However, the tea has also been observed to cause a "mild non-dose dependent systematic toxicity" in various tissues throughout the body, "such as congestion, fatty changes, and necrosis in liver, blood vessels, kidney, lung and testis, but the brain, eyes, intestines and heart were essentially normal."[11]

Gallery

  • in Aanakkulam

  • in Talakona forest, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India

  • In Talakona forest

  • In Talakona forest

  • In Talakona forest

References

  1. ↑ Bárrios, S.; Copeland, A. (2021). "Stachytarpheta jamaicensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T96816126A192132046. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T96816126A192132046.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/96816126/192132046. Retrieved 8 December 2022. 
  2. ↑ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species". http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-195911. 
  3. ↑ "USDA Plants Database". https://plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=STJA. 
  4. ↑ [https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/Plant.aspx?id=703}
  5. ↑ {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Stachytarpheta jamaicensis | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = 19 January 2018 }}
  6. ↑ "Stachytarpheta jamaicensis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=STJA. 
  7. ↑ "Florida Invasive Species Council". https://floridainvasivespecies.org/plantlist2019.cfm. 
  8. ↑ "Blue porterweed". 17 September 2021. https://www.flawildflowers.org/flower-friday-stachytarpheta-jamaicensis/. 
  9. ↑ www.flowersofindia.net, Indian Snakeweed
  10. ↑ Brian N. Becker, Integration Of Medicinal And Culinary Herbs In An Agroforestry Combination On St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands (PDF)
  11. ↑ Professor MacDonald Idu. "The Plant called Medicine (PDF)". http://www.uniben.edu/sites/default/files/inaugural_lectures/Prof_M.Idu_.pdf. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3556295 entry




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