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PLANTS THAT CAUSE DERMATITIS *
Author(s) -
Aplin T. E. H.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
australasian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.67
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1440-0960
pISSN - 0004-8380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-0960.1981.tb00777.x
Subject(s) - herbarium , furocoumarins , medicine , traditional medicine , dermatology , botany , biology , chemistry , photochemistry
SUMMARY Plants that cause dermatitis, on a world‐wide and an Australian basis, in plant orders of the class Angiospermae are presented, together with some of the more important causes of adverse skin reactions—mechanical injury, latex, oxalates, isothiocyanates, furocoumarins and sesquiterpine lactones. Attention is drawn to the contribution that systematic botanists can five to dermatological studies, and to the importance of lodging voucher botanical specimens, in recognized herbaria, to support published data. The difficulty of presenting in this paper the full range of plants that cause dermatitis, together with their active constituents, is emphasized.