Eremanthus glomerulatus
StarEremanthus glomerulatus
Synonyms: Albertinia rufiseta, Albertinia pallidiseta, Albertinia glomerulata, Eremanthus stellatus var. gardnerianus, Eremanthus stellatus var. pohlianus, Albertinia stellata, Albertinia obtusata, Eremanthus stellatus, Eremanthus pallidisetus
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
Cerrado communities in central Brazil use decoctions of Eremanthus glomerulatus bark and leaves as an anti-inflammatory remedy applied to bruises and inflamed joints; the species is recognised in regional ethnobotanical surveys as a 'candeia-do-campo' and a source of alpha-bisabolol-rich essential oil with documented anti-inflammatory activity (Mors et al., 2000; Sousa et al., 2008).
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Botanical Description
Eremanthus glomerulatus Less. (Asteraceae), known locally as 'candeia-do-campo' or 'mangabeira-do-campo', is a small evergreen tree or shrub 2–8 m tall endemic to the cerrado of central Brazil, particularly Minas Gerais, Goiás, Bahia and Tocantins. The trunk is gnarled with thick, corky, longitudinally fissured bark. Leaves are alternate, simple, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 4–12 cm long, dark green and glabrescent above and densely white-tomentose below. The small capitula are aggregated into compact terminal glomerules (whence the epithet) and bear several whitish or pale-violet tubular florets; involucral bracts are imbricate in several series. Achenes are silky, ribbed and topped by a pappus of barbellate bristles. The species grows on sandy or stony cerrado soils and is closely related to E. erythropappus, the source of commercial candeia essential oil. The bark and leaves are used locally for inflammatory conditions, and the wood yields an aromatic oil rich in sesquiterpenes.
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