Research on colombian medicinal plants: roles and resources for plant taxonomists
Colombia has one of the richest floras of any country on earth. It has a large topographic range and varied climatic regimes, and is rich in endemic species (GENTRY, 1983). Many areas of the country have been poorly collected; nevertheless, SCHULTES (1951) estimates that 50.000 species of phanerogam...
- Autores:
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Gyllenhaal, Charlotte
Quinn, Mary Lou
Soejarto, Djaja Doel
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 1986
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/44726
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/44726
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/34825/
- Palabra clave:
- Botánica
Zoología
Ecología
Biodiversidad
Conservación
Arqueología
Ciencias Naturales
Historia Natural
Paleobotánica
Paleozoología
Ornitología
Fanerógamas
Recursos florísticos
Plantas medicinales
Industria farmacéutica
Taxonomía vegetal
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | Colombia has one of the richest floras of any country on earth. It has a large topographic range and varied climatic regimes, and is rich in endemic species (GENTRY, 1983). Many areas of the country have been poorly collected; nevertheless, SCHULTES (1951) estimates that 50.000 species of phanerogams grow in Colombia. PRANCE (1977) cites the lower figure of 45.000, and other workers have speculated that the diversity is even lower (GENTRY, 1978). Because the study of the flora of Colombia is not yet complete it is impossible to give an accurate figure for the number of plant species occurring in the country. It is certain, however, that Colombia is tremendously rich floristically, including in its flora perhaps as much as 50% of all the flowering plant species in the Neotropics (PRANCE, 1977). |
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