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Duboisia myoporoides, or corkwood, is a shrub or tree native to high-rainfall areas on the margins of rainforest in eastern Australia. It has a thick and corky bark. [ 1 ] The leaves are obovate to elliptic in shape, 4–15 cm long and 1–4 cm wide.
The leaves of Duboisia leichhardtii and Duboisia myoporoides also contain scopolamine and hyoscyamine, along with some other pharmaceutically important alkaloids. A derivative of scopolamine is the drug butylscopolamine, a potent peripherally acting antispasmodic. These trees are commercially grown for the pharmaceutical industry.
Accepted Names: Aphananthe philippinensis and Duboisia myoporoides; Caucasian Elm Accepted Name: Zelkova carpinifolia; Chaetoptelea mexicana Liebm. Accepted Name: Ulmus mexicana (Liebm.) Planch. Indian Elm (Monkey Biscuit Tree) Accepted Name: Holoptelea integrifolia (Roxb.) Planch. Microptelea parvifolia (Jacquin) Spach. Accepted Name: Ulmus ...
Duboisia hopwoodii; Duboisia myoporoides; N. Nicotianeae This page was last edited on 19 March 2019, at 20:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
He was the discoverer of the medical properties of Duboisia myoporoides, which was afterwards largely used in ophthalmic surgery. In 1872 he investigated the properties of Duboisia hopwoodii a common ingredient in the eastern Australian variety of the native chewing mixture, pituri.
Tigloidine is a tropane alkaloid that naturally occurs as a minor constituent of a number of solanaceous plants, including Duboisia myoporoides, [1] Physalis peruviana, [2] and Mandragora turcomanica. It was formerly marketed as an antiparkinsonian drug [3] under the trade name Tropigline. [4]
Bacopa floribunda (R.Br.) Wettst.; Baloskion australe (R.Br.) B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson; Baloskion gracile (R.Br.) B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson; Baloskion pallens (R ...
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