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. 2022 Aug 27;27(17):5525. doi: 10.3390/molecules27175525

Table 4.

Some plant species with reported sunscreen properties .

Plant Family Species Name UV Protective Rank References
Adoxaceae Sambucus nigra UVA Jarzycka et al. [34]
Asteraceae Achyrocline satureioides UVB Fuentes et al. [17]
Baccharis antioquensis UVA-UVB Mejía-Giraldo et al. [14,35,36]
Chromolaena pellia UVA-UVB Fuentes et al. [17]
Helichrysum arenarium UVA Jarzycka et al. [34]
Pentacalia pulchella UVA-UVB Mejía-Giraldo et al. [14,35,37]
Bromeliaceae Neoglaziovia variegata UVB de Oliveira-Junior et al. [38]
Calophyllaceae Calophyllum inophyllum UVA-UVB Ku et al. [39]
Convolvulaceae Ipomoea horsfalliae UVB Sierra et al. [40]
Cucurbitaceae Momordica charantia UVB Guimarães de Sousa et al. [41]
Clusiaceae Garcinia brasiliensis UVB Figueiredo et al. [42]
Fabaceae Bauhinia microstachya UVB Reis-Mansur et al. [43]
Dimorphandra gardneriana UVB Nunes et al. [15]
Myricaceae Morella parvifolia UVA-UVB Puertas-Mejía et al. [44]
Nycataginaceae Boerhavia diffusa UVB Guimarães de Sousa et al. [41]
Rosaceae Crataegus monogyna UVA Jarzycka et al. [34]
Verbenaceae Lippia microphylla UVB Nunes et al. [15]
Lippia origanoides UVB Fuentes et al. [17]
Vitaceae Vitis vinifera UVA-UVB Hübner et al. [45]

, Modified from Fuentes et al. [17].