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Ruehssia cundurango
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Ruehssia cundurango

Ruehssia cundurango is a species of plant of the genus Ruehssia native to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in South America. It has the common name condurango. The subspecies Ruehssia cundurango subsp. cundurango (synonym Marsdenia cundurango) is known to contain conduritol, a cyclitol or cyclic polyol. It was first isolated in 1908 by K. Kübler from the bark of the vine.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1448892.