Bituminaria morisiana

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| taxon = Bituminaria morisiana

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| synonyms = Psoralea morisiana Pignatti & Metlesics

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Bituminaria morisiana is a perennial Mediterranean herb species in the genus Bituminaria. Leaf, trifoliate with 3 linear, lanceolate, tomentose leaflets. White flowers in globose flowerheads. Fruit a tomentose legume. Flowers May–July. It is endemic to Sardinia where it is restricted to high mountain areas, such as Monte Albo and Monte Corrasi.

The pterocarpans bitucarpin A and B can be isolated from the aerial parts of B. morisiana,Pterocarpans from Bituminaria morisiana and Bituminaria morisiana. Dedicated to the memory of Professor Jeffrey B. Harborne. Luisa Pistelli, Cecilia Noccioli, Giovanni Appendino, Federica Bianchi, Olov Sterner and Mauro Ballero, Phytochemistry, Volume 64, Issue 2, September 2003, Pages 595-598, {{doi|10.1016/S0031-9422(03)00190-0}} erybraedin C from the leaves[http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/17223/ New cytotoxic prenylated isoflavonoids from Bituminaria morisiana. Cottiglia Filippo, Casu Laura, Bonsignore Leonardo, Casu Mariano, Floris Costantino, Leonti Marco, Gertsch Juerg and Heilmann Jörg, Planta medica 71 (3) (2005), pp. 254-260] and morisianine is isolated from the seeds.A pterocarpan from the seeds of Bituminaria morisiana. Marco Leonti, Laura Casu, Jurg Gertsch, Leonardo Bonsignore, Costantino Floris, Mariano Casu and Filippo Cottiglia, J Nat Med (2010) 64:354–357, {{doi|10.1007/s11418-010-0408-7}}