Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
LYTHRUM ALATUM
PURSH
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Myrtales
Family: Lythraceae
Common name: Winged loose strife
Distribution: United States
Habitat: Wet meadows, stream, pond margins
Description: This is a perennial shrub or subshrub, and its erect stem is 1 m
tall with glabrous leaves (5 × 1 cm), which are oblong and opposite to
subopposite. The inlorescence is single or paired lowers (5 × 2 m) that are
pinkish purple or rose-pink with six petals.
Compounds and activities: The methanol extracts of seeds of this species have
shown antimicrobial activities against
Staphylococcus aureus
,
Pseudomonas
aeruginosa
,
Escherichia coli
, and
Candida albicans
.
The antioxidant activ-
ity of the seeds of this species has been tested using trolox extract (TE), and
the value recorded was 206,154 µm TE (Borchardt et al.,
2009).
LUDWIGIA DECURRENS
WALTER AND
LUDWIGIA
ABYSSINICA
(A. RICH) DANDY & BRENAN
