Stryphnodendron adstringens

Stryphnodendron adstringens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Mimosoideae
Tribe: Mimoseae
Genus: Stryphnodendron
Species: S. adstringens
Binomial name
Stryphnodendron adstringens
(Mart.) Coville

Stryphnodendron adstringens (Portuguese: barbatimão) is a species of legume in the genus Stryphnodendron found in Brazil.

Holcocera cerradicola is a moth, whose larvae feed on S. adstringens.

Chemistry

S. adstringens stem bark is used to produce tannins of the prorobinetinidins (flavanols oligomers containing robinetinidol) or prodelphinidins type. These are robinetinidol-(4β → 8)-epigallocatechin, robinetinidol-(4α → 8)-epigallocatechin, robinetinidol-(4β → 8)-epigallocatechin 3-O-gallate, robinetinidol-(4α → 8)-epigallocatechin 3-O-gallate, robinetinidol-(4α → 6)-gallocatechin and robinetinidol-(4α → 6)-epigallocatechin, in addition to the tentatively characterized, robinetinidol [4β → 6(8)]-gallocatechin and robinetinidol-(4α → 8)-gallocatechin.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Prorobinetinidins from Stryphnodendron adstringens. Palazzo de Mello J.; Petereit F.; Nahrstedt A., Phytochemistry, 1996.
  2. ↑ Influence of tannins from Stryphnodendron adstringens on growth and virulence factors of Candida albicans. Kelly Ishida, João Carlos Palazzo de Mello, Diógenes Aparício Garcia Cortez, Benedito Prado Dias Filho, Tânia Ueda-Nakamura and Celso Vataru Nakamura, Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2006 58(5):942-949
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