Chondrodendron platiphyllum

De Lacerda (394) reported that he obtained paralysing effects with extracts of Botryopsis platiphylla and Cocculus filipendula. The material examined under the former name may have come from Chondrodendron tomentosum rather than Chondrodendron platiphyllum (cf. 139). Cocculus filipendula is now called Ungulipetalum fili-pendulum (C. Martius) Mold, and is the only representative of a poorly known genus (140) there has been no confirmation of its activity. 

Kupchan et al. [170] discuss the origin of the old drug radix pareirae bravae, and in view of the similarity in alkaloid composition of some forms of C. pareira to that of Chondrodendron microphyllum and Chondrodendron platiphyllum (q.v.) they suggest that C. pareira may have been a further source of the drug. However, the particular combination of alkaloids they encountered has not yet been found in material from Brazil. 

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