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Hyptis mutabilis (Rich.) Briq.
EOL Text
Hyptis spicata Poiteau
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Isotype for Mesosphaerum yungasense Britton
Catalog Number: US 43160
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): M. Bang
Year Collected: 1890
Locality: Yungas., La Paz, Bolivia, South America
- Isotype: Britton, N. L. 1895. Mem. Torrey Bot. Club. 4: 246.
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Isotype for Mesosphaerum yungasense Britton
Catalog Number: US 1320882
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): M. Bang
Year Collected: 1890
Locality: Yungas., La Paz, Bolivia, South America
- Isotype: Britton, N. L. 1895. Mem. Torrey Bot. Club. 4: 246.
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Isotype for Mesosphaerum yungasense Britton
Catalog Number: US 1157066
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): M. Bang
Year Collected: 1890
Locality: Yungas., La Paz, Bolivia, South America
- Isotype: Britton, N. L. 1895. Mem. Torrey Bot. Club. 4: 246.
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Contains an essential oil rich in sesquiterpenes.
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
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Whole plant: Pounded and mixed with salt for treating "buck sick" ("Carib sick") in Guyana. Pounded in an infusion for bowel problems. Leaf: Juice from crushed leaves used for a children's vermifuge, in the form of a drink or a body-rub, in French Guiana. Pounded and placed on sores or cuts with good effect.
FG Creole: radie crise. Guyana: piaba. Surinam: koorsie wiwirie.