Description |
1 online resource (585 p.) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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' |
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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 |
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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 |
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MEDICINAL LINDERA |
Subject |
Botanical chemistry -- Australia
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Rain forests -- Australia.
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Materia medica, Vegetable -- Australia
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Medicinal plants -- Australia
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Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine.
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Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine
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Botanical chemistry
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Materia medica, Vegetable
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Medicinal plants
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Rain forests
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Australia
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781486307593 |
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1486307590 |
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