Revisiting Acalypha medicinal interest: ethnobotany, experimental studies, and the implications of taxonomic misuse pitfalls

Lucía Villaescusa-González; Jose Maria Cardiel; Iris Montero-Muñoz; Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez

doi:10.3897/arphapreprints.e169192

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doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e169192

First posted 21 Aug 2025

Authors

Lucía Villaescusa-González - Corresponding author

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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Jose Maria Cardiel

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Facultad de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain

http://www.acalypha.es

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Iris Montero-Muñoz

Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

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Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez - Corresponding author

University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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Author contributions

Lucía Villaescusa-González: Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. José María Cardiel: Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing. Iris Montero-Muñoz: Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing. Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez: Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Project administration, Funding acquisition.

Conflict of interest

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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MCIU - Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades

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