Aspilia mossambicensis

Plantae — Angiospermae

Eudicotyledones 
Ordo : Asterales 
Familia : Asteraceae 
Tribus : Heliantheae 
Genus : Aspilia 
Species : A. mossambicensis 

Aspilia mossambicensis 
(Oliv.) Wild  

Aspilia mossambicensis (binomen ab Hiram Wild post Daniele Oliver anno 1966 statutum) est species plantarum familiae Asteracearum in Africa tropica endemica. Folia ab hominibus atque etiam a Panibus troglodytis morbo parasitico afflictis manducantur.

Bibliographia

• Michael A. Huffman, Richard W. Wrangham, "Diversity of Medicinal Plant Use by Chimpanzees in the Wild" in Richard W. Wrangham et al., edd., Chimpanzee Cultures (Cantabrigiae Massachusettensium: Harvard University Press, 1994) pp. 129-148
• Koichi Koshimizu et al., "Physiological activities and the active constituents of potentially medicinal plants used by wild chimpanzees of the Mahale mountains, Tanzania" in International Journal of Primatology vol. 14 (1993)
• D. M. Musyimi, J. A. Ogur, P.M. Muema, "Effects of Leaf and Root Extracts of Aspilia Plant (Aspilia mossambicensis) (Oliv) Wild.on Some Selected Micro-Organisms" in International Journal of Biological Chemistry vol. 1 (2007) 213-220
• J. E. Page, F. Balza, T. Nishida, G. H. Towers, "Biologically active diterpenes from Aspilia mossambicensis, a chimpanzee medicinal plant" in Phytochemistry vol. 31 (1992) pp. 3437-3439 Epitome