Parastrephia

Parastrephia is a genus of South American plants in the aster tribe within the sunflower family.[2][3]

Parastrephia
Parastrephia sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Astereae[1]
Genus:	Parastrephia Nutt.
Type species
Parastrephia ericoides (syn of P. lucida)[1] Nutt.
Synonyms[1]
Polyclados Phil.

Some Parastrephia species are allegedly used in traditional medicine. For example, Parastrephia lucida is used in the highlands of the Andes to relieve toothache, for bone fractures and bruises, and as a vulnerary.[4]

Species[1]

• Parastrephia lucida (Meyen) Cabrera - Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina
• Parastrephia quadrangularis (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina
• Parastrephia teretiuscula (Kuntze) Cabrera - Bolivia, Antofagasta Region of northern Chile

References

1. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Archived 2014-11-06 at Archive.today
2. Nuttall, Thomas. 1841. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 7: 449–450 in English
3. Tropicos, Parastrephia Nutt.
4. D'Almeida RE, Alberto MR, Quispe C, Schmeda-Hirschmann G, Isla MI (2012). "Antimicrobial phenylpropanoids from the Argentinean highland plant Parastrephia lucida (Meyen) Cabrera". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 142 (2): 407–414. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2012.05.010. PMID 22735664.