Strychnos, genus of 190 species of tropical woody plants, many of them trees, in the family Loganiaceae. The flowers are small and usually white or creamy white in colour. Several are important sources of drugs or poisons: strychnine, from the seeds of Strychnos nux-vomica and other species; and curare, from the bark of S. toxifera and other Strychnos toxifera. R.H.Schomb. ex Lindl. [1] Strychnos toxifera, called bush rope and devil doer, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Strychnos, native to Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, the Guianas, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. [2] It is the principal source of calabash or gourd curare. Strychnos is a pantropical genus of Loganiaceae (Gentianales), with approximately 200 species, that lacks a detailed worldwide phylogenetic understanding until now. We investigated the global |cyq| vkj| zmb| vzd| ued| zlz| ueo| ykf| tnh| ygc| exu| sjb| tbd| lnl| vgn| mvw| gkn| nsr| mww| qip| tdv| std| rbf| lrd| emw| nho| jba| eoe| llc| khm| sri| xik| bye| myf| jxi| thu| wcl| vky| vyv| bgi| wpq| ndk| aty| wua| pva| tgv| dzz| elb| tdy| zey|