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Cupania Cinerea
''Cupania cinerea'' is a plant species in the family Sapindaceae. It was described as a new species in 1843 by German botanist Eduard Friedrich Poeppig. The plant is native to South America (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela) and Central America (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panamá). Several phytochemicals occur in the plant, including cupacinoside, cupacinoxepin, scopoletin, caryophyllene oxide, two bisabolene sesquiterpenes, lichexanthone, gustastatin, lupenone, betulone, 17β,21β-epoxyhopan-3-one, taraxerol Taraxerol is a naturally-occurring pentacyclic triterpenoid. It exists in various higher plants, including ''Taraxacum officinale'' (Asteraceae), ''Alnus glutinosa'' (Betulaceae), ''Litsea dealbata'' (Lauraceae), ''Skimmia spp.'' (Rutaceae), '' ..., and taraxerone. References cinerea Flora of Central America Flora of Southern America Plants described in 1843 Taxa named by Eduard Friedrich Poeppig {{Sapindales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Of Southern America
Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring ( indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for fungi, it is '' funga''. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora as in the terms ''gut flora'' or ''skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cupania
''Cupania'' is a plant genus in the family Sapindaceae. Selected species * ''Cupania alternifolia'' * ''Cupania americana'' * ''Cupania cinerea'' * ''Cupania glabra'' * ''Cupania guatemalensis'' * ''Cupania vernalis'' ; horticultural names * ''Cupania elegans ''Cupania elegans'' is a horticultural name (a name that has never been validly published in scientific literature) for a plant in the family Sapindaceae. References External links ''Cupania elegans''at the International Plant Names Index ...'' L.Linden., 1893L.Linden. Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 13: 474. 1893 ; et ex Rev. Hortic. (1893) 339 References External links Sapindaceae genera {{Sapindales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plants Of The World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by 2020". The initial focus was on tropical African Floras, particularly Flora Zambesiaca, Flora of West Tropical Africa and Flora of Tropical East Africa. The database uses the same taxonomical source as Kew's World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, which is the International Plant Names Index, and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). POWO contains 1,234,000 global plant names and 367,600 images. See also *Australian Plant Name Index The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants. It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid names. It includes bibliographic and typification details, informati ... * Convention on Biological Diversity * W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taraxerol
Taraxerol is a naturally-occurring pentacyclic triterpenoid. It exists in various higher plants, including ''Taraxacum officinale'' (Asteraceae), ''Alnus glutinosa'' (Betulaceae), ''Litsea dealbata'' (Lauraceae), ''Skimmia spp.'' (Rutaceae), ''Dorstenia spp.'' (Moraceae), ''Maytenus spp.'' (Celastraceae), and ''Alchornea latifolia'' ( Euphobiaceae). Taraxerol was named "alnulin" when it was first isolated in 1923 from the bark of the grey alder (''Alnus incana'' L.) by Zellner and Röglsperger. It also had the name "skimmiol" when Takeda and Yosiki isolated it from ''Skimmia'' (Rutaceae). A large number of medicinal plants are known to have this compound in their leaves, roots or seed oil. Chemistry Structure Taraxerol is an oleanan-3-ol with an alpha-methyl substituent at position 13, a missing methyl group at position 14, and a double bond between 14 and 15. The dominant biological stereoisomer in plant leaves and in sediments has the taraxer-14-en-3β-ol configuration. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lichexanthone
Lichexanthone is an organic compound in the structural class of chemicals known as xanthones. Lichexanthone was first isolated and identified by Japanese chemists from a species of leafy lichen in the 1940s. The compound is known to occur in many lichens, and it is important in the taxonomy of species in several genera, such as ''Pertusaria'' and '' Pyxine''. More than a dozen lichen species have a variation of the word lichexanthone incorporated as part of their binomial name. The presence of lichexanthone in lichens causes them to fluoresce a greenish-yellow colour under long-wavelength UV light; this feature is used to help identify some species. Lichexanthone is also found in several plants (many are from the families Annonaceae and Rutaceae), and some species of fungi that do not form lichens. In lichens, the biosynthesis of lichexanthone occurs through a set of enzymatic reactions that start with the molecule acetyl-CoA and sequentially add successive units, forming a lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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