The genus Perovskia Kar.: ethnobotany, chemotaxonomy and phytochemistry: a review

Abstract

Perovskia Kar. is a small genus from the Lamiaceae family which includes a variety of promising medicinal and phytochemical properties. This review paper was undertaken to integrate all the data published about the ethnobotany, phytochemistry and biological activities of species belonging to the genus Perovskia during the past decades. A literature survey showed that to date more than forty new compounds belonging to different classes of natural products have been isolated and successfully characterized from different Perovskia species worldwide. These compounds are extensively discussed in this review article, also from the chemosystematic standpoint. Moreover, these herbal plants and their phytoconstituents have a great potential of biological activity that are described in detail, too.

Keywords:

• Biological activity
• chemotaxonomy
• ethnobotany
• lamiaceae; Perovskia Kar.
• Phytochemistry

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