Myroxylon balsamum var. pereirae

Myroxylon balsamum var. pereirae

Classis : Magnoliopsida
Ordo : Fabales
Familia : Fabaceae
Subfamilia : Faboideae
Tribus : Sophoreae
Genus : Myroxylon
Species : Myroxylon balsamum
(L.) Harms

Myroxylon balsamum var. pereirae
(Royle) Harms

Myroxylon balsamum var. pereirae (nomen anno 1908 ab Hermanno Harms post Ioannem Royle statutum), Latinitate communi balsamum Peruvianum, est varietas speciei Myroxylon balsamum arborum resiniferarum quae in Salvatoria floret. Aroma utile, rationibus cosmeticis et medicis, sed allergenum praebet.

Notae

Bibliographia

1605 : Carolus Clusius, interpr., "Aromatum apud Indos nascentium historia" in eiusdem Exoticorum libri decem pp. 302-304
ante 1653 : "Del bálsamo" in Bernabé Cobo, Historia del Nuevo Mundo (1890-1893) vol. 2 pp. 90-91
1853 : John Forbes Royle, A Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics p. 414

Eruditio recentior

Fabrizio Guarneri et al., "Myroxylon pereirae (Balsam of Peru): still worth testing?" in Contact Dermatitis vol. 85 (2021)
A. W. Haggis, "Fundamental errors in the early history of cinchona" in Bulletin for the History of Medicine vol. 10 (1942) pp. 586-592
Hermann August Theodor Harms in Notizblatt des Königlichen botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin vol. 5 (1908) p. 95
Ângela Lúcia Bagnatori Sartori, Gwilym P. Lewis, Vidal de Freitas Mansano, Ana Maria Goulart de Azevedo Tozzi, "A revision of the genus Myroxylon (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae)" in Kew Bulletin vol. 70 (2015) no. 48 pp. 1-12
Angela Schottenhammer, "“Peruvian balsam”: an example of transoceanic transfer of medicinal knowledge" in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine vol. 16 (2020)