Stryphnodendron adstringens

Stryphnodendron adstringens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Stryphnodendron
Species:
S. adstringens
Binomial name
Stryphnodendron adstringens

Stryphnodendron adstringens (Portuguese: barbatimão) is a species of legume in the genus Stryphnodendron found in Brazil.

Holcocera cerradicola is a moth, whose larvae feed on S. adstringens.

Chemistry

Stryphnodendron adstringens stem bark is used to produce tannins of the prorobinetinidins (flavanols oligomers containing robinetinidol) or prodelphinidins type. These are robinetinidol-(4β → 8)-epigallocatechin, robinetinidol-(4α → 8)-epigallocatechin, robinetinidol-(4β → 8)-epigallocatechin 3-O-gallate, robinetinidol-(4α → 8)-epigallocatechin 3-O-gallate, robinetinidol-(4α → 6)-gallocatechin and robinetinidol-(4α → 6)-epigallocatechin, in addition to the tentatively characterized, robinetinidol [4β → 6(8)]-gallocatechin and robinetinidol-(4α → 8)-gallocatechin.

References

  1. ↑ Prorobinetinidins from Stryphnodendron adstringens. Palazzo de Mello J.; Petereit F.; Nahrstedt A., Phytochemistry, 1996.
  2. ↑ Influence of tannins from Stryphnodendron adstringens on growth and virulence factors of Candida albicans[link removed]. Kelly Ishida, João Carlos Palazzo de Mello, Diógenes Aparício Garcia Cortez, Benedito Prado Dias Filho, Tânia Ueda-Nakamura and Celso Vataru Nakamura, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2006 58(5):942-949