Hymenaea martiana
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Hymenaea martiana is a tree species in the genus Hymenaea
Hymenaea
Hymenaea L. is a genus in the flowering plant family Fabaceae . Of fourteen living species in the genus, all but one are native to the tropics of the Americas, with one additional species on the east coast of Africa. Some authors place the African species in a separate monotypic genus, Trachylobium...

found in Brazil (Alagoas, Bahia, Ceara, Goias, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco) and Paraguay.

Chemicals

The three rhamnosides eucryphin, astilbin
Astilbin
Astilbin is a flavanonol, a type of flavonoid. Astilbin is the -isomer; neoisoastilbin is the -isomer and isoastilbin is the -isomer....

 and engelitin can be isolated from the bark of H. martiana.
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