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Echites
''Echites'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1756. It is primarily native to Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and the US State of Florida. ;Species Over 500 names have been published for species, subspecies, and varieties within ''Echites'', but most have been relegated to synonymy or moved to other genera. The following are currently accepted # '' Echites agglutinatus'' Jacq. - Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Leeward Islands # '' Echites brevipedunculatus'' Lippold - Cuba # '' Echites cajalbanicus'' Lippold - Cuba # '' Echites candelarianus'' J.F.Morales - Costa Rica # '' Echites darienensis'' J.F.Morales - Panama # '' Echites puntarenensis'' J.F.Morales - Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica # '' Echites turbinatus'' Woodson - Chiapas, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama # '' Echites tuxtlensis'' Standl. - Chiapas, Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras # ''Echites umbella ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echites Umbellatus
''Echites umbellatus'' is a flowering climber, belonging to subfamily Apocynoideae of the family Apocynaceae and has the English common name devil's potato. It was first described in 1760 by Dutch botanist, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. The species grows in parts of Florida, Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, Honduras, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Colombian islands in the Western Caribbean. It is a perennial with white flowers and is toxic., containing lycopsamine-type pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Disease associated with consumption of PAs is known as pyrrolizidine alkaloidosis and many such alkaloids exhibit hepatotoxicity i.e. can cause severe liver damage, including hepatic veno-occlusive disease and liver cancer They are also tumorigenic Carcinogenesis, also called oncogenesis or tumorigenesis, is the formation of a cancer, whereby normal cells are transformed into cancer cells. The process is chara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. '' Panthera leo'' (lion) and '' Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. phylogenetic analysis should c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
