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Parastrephia
''Parastrephia'' is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. Some ''Parastrephia'' species are allegedly used in traditional medicine. For example, ''Parastrephia lucida'' is used in the highlands of the Andes to relieve toothache, for bone fractures and bruises, and as a vulnerary. Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of December 2022: * ''Parastrephia lepidophylla'' (Wedd.) Cabrera - Argentina, Bolivia * ''Parastrephia lucida'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina * ''Parastrephia phyliciformis'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia * ''Parastrephia quadrangularis'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina * ''Parastrephia teretiuscula'' (Kuntze) Cabrera - Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parastrephia Ericoides
''Parastrephia'' is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. Some ''Parastrephia'' species are allegedly used in traditional medicine. For example, ''Parastrephia lucida'' is used in the highlands of the Andes to relieve toothache, for bone fractures and bruises, and as a vulnerary. Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of December 2022: * ''Parastrephia lepidophylla'' (Wedd.) Cabrera - Argentina, Bolivia * ''Parastrephia lucida'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina * ''Parastrephia phyliciformis'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia * ''Parastrephia quadrangularis'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina * ''Parastrephia teretiuscula'' (Kuntze) Cabrera - Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parastrephia Teretiuscula
''Parastrephia'' is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. Some ''Parastrephia'' species are allegedly used in traditional medicine. For example, ''Parastrephia lucida'' is used in the highlands of the Andes to relieve toothache, for bone fractures and bruises, and as a vulnerary. Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of December 2022: * ''Parastrephia lepidophylla'' (Wedd.) Cabrera - Argentina, Bolivia * ''Parastrephia lucida'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina * '' Parastrephia phyliciformis'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia * '' Parastrephia quadrangularis'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina * '' Parastrephia teretiuscula'' (Kuntze) Cabrera - Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parastrephia Quadrangularis
''Parastrephia'' is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. Some ''Parastrephia'' species are allegedly used in traditional medicine. For example, ''Parastrephia lucida'' is used in the highlands of the Andes to relieve toothache, for bone fractures and bruises, and as a vulnerary. Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of December 2022: * ''Parastrephia lepidophylla'' (Wedd.) Cabrera - Argentina, Bolivia * ''Parastrephia lucida'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina * '' Parastrephia phyliciformis'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia * '' Parastrephia quadrangularis'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina * ''Parastrephia teretiuscula'' (Kuntze) Cabrera - Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parastrephia Phyliciformis
''Parastrephia'' is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. Some ''Parastrephia'' species are allegedly used in traditional medicine. For example, ''Parastrephia lucida'' is used in the highlands of the Andes to relieve toothache, for bone fractures and bruises, and as a vulnerary. Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of December 2022: * ''Parastrephia lepidophylla'' (Wedd.) Cabrera - Argentina, Bolivia * ''Parastrephia lucida'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina * '' Parastrephia phyliciformis'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia * ''Parastrephia quadrangularis'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina * ''Parastrephia teretiuscula'' (Kuntze) Cabrera - Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parastrephia Lucida
''Parastrephia'' is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. Some ''Parastrephia'' species are allegedly used in traditional medicine. For example, '' Parastrephia lucida'' is used in the highlands of the Andes to relieve toothache, for bone fractures and bruises, and as a vulnerary. Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of December 2022: * ''Parastrephia lepidophylla'' (Wedd.) Cabrera - Argentina, Bolivia * '' Parastrephia lucida'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina * '' Parastrephia phyliciformis'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia * '' Parastrephia quadrangularis'' (Meyen) Cabrera - Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina * '' Parastrephia teretiuscula'' (Kuntze) Cabrera - Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Boli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parastrephia Lepidophylla
''Parastrephia lepidophylla'', commonly known as tola or tola tola, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to South America and has been recorded from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru where it is characteristic of the puna grassland ecoregion. It is a resinous shrub, growing up to 2 m in height, that is typically found in semi-arid central Andean dry, or tola heath, puna habitats, at altitudes of 3500–5000 m above sea level, and in the undergrowth of central Andean ''Polylepis ''Polylepis'' is a genus comprising 28 recognised shrub and tree species, that are endemic to the mid- and high-elevation regions of the tropical Andes. This group is unique in the rose family in that it is predominantly wind-pollinated. They are ...'' forest. Uses In north-western Argentina the smoke from burning the leaves of the plant has been used externally as an aid in hastening childbirth. References Astereae Taxa named by Ángel Lulio Cabrera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nutt
Nutt is an English surname. List of people surnamed Nutt *Alfred Nutt (1856–1910), British publisher * Alfred Young Nutt (1847–1924), English architect and artist * Commodore Nutt (1844–1881), American dwarf who worked for P. T. Barnum *Danny Nutt, American football coach *David Nutt; several people including **David Nutt, British scientist **David Nutt, English publisher ** David H. Nutt, American lawyer and philanthropist *Dennis Nutt, American basketball player *Dickey Nutt, American basketball coach * Eliza Hall Nutt, American philanthropist and schoolteacher *Emma Nutt, first female telephone switchboard operator *Gordon Nutt (born 1932), English footballer *Grady Nutt, American writer *Houston Nutt, American football coach *Jim Nutt, American artist *John Nutt; several people including **John Nutt, English pirate ** John Nutt (politician), English MP **John Nutt (printer), English printer *Levi G. Nutt (1866–1938), American Treasury Department agent * Mart Nutt (1962– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antofagasta Region
The Antofagasta Region ( es, Región de Antofagasta, ) is one of Chile's sixteen first-order administrative divisions. The second-largest region of Chile in area, it comprises three provinces, Antofagasta, El Loa and Tocopilla. It is bordered to the north by Tarapacá, by Atacama to the south, and to the east by Bolivia and Argentina. The region's capital is the port city of Antofagasta; another one of its important cities is Calama. The region's main economic activity is copper mining in its giant inland porphyry copper systems. Antofagasta's climate is extremely arid, albeit somewhat milder near the coast. Nearly all of the region is devoid of vegetation, except close to the Loa River and at oases such as San Pedro de Atacama. Much of the inland is covered by salt flats, tephra and lava flows, and the coast exhibits prominent cliffs. The region was sparsely populated by indigenous Changos and Atacameños until massive Chilean immigration in conjunction with a saltpeter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of , with a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. It shares land borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the north-east, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chile also controls the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. It also claims about of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The country's capital and largest city is Santiago, and its national language is Spanish. Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule, but failing to conquer the independent Mapuche who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. In 1818, after declaring in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peru
, image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Firm and Happy for the Union" , national_anthem = "National Anthem of Peru" , march = "March of Flags" , image_map = PER orthographic.svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Lima , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , official_languages = Peruvian Spanish, Spanish , languages_type = Co-official languages , languages = , ethnic_groups = , ethnic_groups_year = 2017 , demonym = Peruvians, Peruvian , government_type = Unitary state, Unitary Semi-presidential system, semi-presidential republic , leader_title1 = President of Peru, President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivia
, image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square patchwork with the (top left to bottom right) diagonals forming colored stripes (green, blue, purple, red, orange, yellow, white, green, blue, purple, red, orange, yellow, from top right to bottom left) , other_symbol = , other_symbol_type = Dual flag: , image_coat = Escudo de Bolivia.svg , national_anthem = " National Anthem of Bolivia" , image_map = BOL orthographic.svg , map_width = 220px , alt_map = , image_map2 = , alt_map2 = , map_caption = , capital = La Paz Sucre , largest_city = , official_languages = Spanish , languages_type = Co-official languages , languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica. The earliest recorded human prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
