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Author Williams, Cheryll J

Title Phytochemistry of Australia's Tropical Rainforest Medicinal Potential of Ancient Plants
Published Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (585 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Cultural sensitivity warning -- Introduction -- 1 Tropical rainforests: tales of plunder and protection -- A PRECIOUS RESOURCE -- MEDICINAL PLANTS: A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY -- AUSTRALIA'S TROPICAL NORTH: PIONEER VISIONS -- THE TIMBER TRADE -- CEDAR AS MEDICINE -- THE CONTENTIOUS ISSUE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT HAVE WE DONE? -- RAINFOREST REVEGETATION: PLANTING FOR THE FUTURE -- RAINFOREST OAKS: RARE AND PRIMITIVE PROTEACEAE -- AUSTRALIAN TROPICAL RAINFOREST PROTEACEAE -- EXTINCTION IN THE TROPICS
CONSERVING RAINFOREST BIODIVERSITY -- A FUTURE FOR OUR LAND? -- REFERENCES -- 2 Primeval links to the modern world -- THE AGE OF THE PTERIDOPHYTES -- ANCIENT LYCOPODS: RARE TASSEL FERNS (HUPERZIA AND PHLEGMARIURUS) -- AQUATICS: THE EARLIEST FLOWERS OF THE WATERWAYS -- WATERLILIES AS FOOD -- MEDICINAL WATERLILIES: AN EXTENSIVE REPERTOIRE -- REFERENCES -- 3 Timeless treasures: Gondwana and the rainforest refuge -- ANCESTRAL GONDWANAN CONTINENTAL LINKS: THE SOUTHERN BEECHES -- ANCIENT ANGIOSPERMS -- AN EVOLVING TIME CAPSULE -- SPECIAL PLACES: TROPICAL CLOUD FORESTS -- ANGIOSPERMS OF ANTIQUITY
AUSTROBAILEYA: A RAINFOREST SPECIALIST -- AN UNUSUAL NATIVE 'BITTER VINE' -- IDIOSPERMUM IDIOSYNCRASIES -- REFERENCES -- 4 Ancient gymnosperms -- GYMNOSPERM ODDITIES -- CYCADS: A 'LIVING FOSSIL' LINEAGE -- ANCIENT ARAUCARIANS -- RESIN DITERPENES -- ANCIENT ENDOPHYTES AS ANTICANCER DRUG RESOURCES -- REFERENCES -- 5 Pines and podocarps: environmental refugees -- PODOCARPS: SURVIVAL AND STRATEGIC ADAPTATION -- GONDWANAN SURVIVORS -- NATIVE PODOCARPS -- PODOCARPS AS TRADITIONAL REMEDIES -- NATIVE CYPRESS -- CYPRESS RESINS AND OILS -- THE MAGIC OF 'MEDICINAL SMOKE'
CALLITRIS: PESTICIDE AND ANTI-TUMOUR STUDIES -- THE SEA HEARSE: AN ANTICANCER HERB? -- REFERENCES -- 6 Magnoliids: survivors from prehistory -- MAGNOLIALES: VISIONS OF SPLENDOUR -- MEDICINAL MAGNOLIA -- LIRIODENDRON TULIP TREES: ANCIENT SURVIVORS FROM AMERICA AND CHINA -- PRIMEVAL POLLINATORS -- EUPOMATIA: THE NATIVE GUAVA -- PIGEONBERRY ASH: A DIVINATORY TROPICAL TREE -- REFERENCES -- 7 Myristica: nutmeg and mace -- AUSTRALIA'S NATIVE NUTMEGS -- A TROPICAL 'CAPE NUTMEG' (HORSFIELDIA AUSTRALIANA) -- THE NUTMEG SPICE -- POTENT SPICE CHEMICALS -- SAFROLE: TOXICOLOGICAL CONCERNS
MEDICINAL MYRISTICA -- A MISTAKEN HALLUCINOGEN? -- REFERENCES -- 8 Antipodean phytochemicals -- EARLY PHYTOCHEMICAL ENTERPRISES -- THE AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST: VENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN -- BOTANICAL LINKS WITH NEW GUINEA -- ELLIPTICINE AND THE OCHROSIA PLUM -- LOST OPPORTUNITIES AND NEW DIRECTIONS -- BUILDING ON THE PAST -- BLUSHWOOD: AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY -- REFERENCES -- 9 Phytochemistry of the laurels -- SOUTHERN SASSAFRAS -- RAINFOREST MONIMIACEAE -- LAURACEAE: ALKALOIDS AND ANTI-TUMOUR TESTING -- NATIVE CAMPHOR -- CINNAMON: RESURRECTION OF AN ANCIENT HERB -- LITSEA AND NEOLITSEA
Summary An essential reference for those interested in the medicinal and botanical potential of rainforests
Notes Description based upon print version of record
MEDICINAL LINDERA
Subject Botanical chemistry -- Australia
Rain forests -- Australia.
Materia medica, Vegetable -- Australia
Medicinal plants -- Australia
Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine.
Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine.
Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine
Botanical chemistry
Materia medica, Vegetable
Medicinal plants
Rain forests
Australia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781486307593
1486307590