Biology:Cullen plicatum

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Short description: Species of legume

Cullen plicatum
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Cullen
Species:
C. plicatum
Binomial name
Cullen plicatum
(Delile) C.H.Stirt.
Synonyms[1]
  • Psoralea odorata Lotodes plicatum
  • (Delile) Kuntze (Delile) Pomel
  • Blatt. & Hallb. Psoralea plicata
  • Psoralea obovata Delile
  • Munbya plicata Roxb.

Cullen plicatum, synonym Psoralea plicata, is a herb species in the genus Psoralea. It is native from northern Africa to north-west India and to South Africa.[1]

C. plicatum contains plicadin, a coumestan,[2] and plicatin A and B, two hydroxycinnamic acids.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Cullen plicatum (Delile) C.H.Stirt..". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:908582-1. 
  2. A benzoquinone and a coumestan from Psoralea plicata. Nazli Rasool, Abdul Qasim Khan, Viqar Uddin Ahmad and Abdul Malik, Phytochemistry, Volume 30, Issue 8, 1991, Pages 2800-2803, doi:10.1016/0031-9422(91)85151-O
  3. Plicatin A and B, two phenolic cinnamates from Psoralea plicata. Nazli Rasool, Abdul Qasim Khan and Abdul Malik, Phytochemistry, Volume 29, Issue 12, 1990, Pages 3979-3981, doi:10.1016/0031-9422(90)85385-S

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