Biology:Horsfieldia
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Short description: Genus of flowering plants
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| Horsfieldia kingii habit | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Myristicaceae |
| Genus: | Horsfieldia Willd.[1] |
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| Horsfieldia odorata Willd.[1]
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Horsfieldia is a genus of evergreen trees.[3] The genus consists of about 100 species and is distributed across South Asia, from India to the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.[3] Some species are used for timber.[4] Species in the genus sometimes contain alkaloids, including horsfiline, which has analgesic effects.[5]
Selected species
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The genus Horsfieldia (type: Horsfieldia odorata) was first described and published in Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 4(2): 872. 1806. "Name - !Horsfieldia Willd.". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40027709.
- ↑ "Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)". http://botany.si.edu/ing/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Li Bingtao; Thomas K. Wilson (2008). "Myristicaceae" (PDF). Flora of China. 7. pp. 99–101. http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume07/Myristicaceae.pdf.
- ↑ "Commercial timbers: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. In English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Version: 25th June 2009". 2000. http://delta-intkey.com/wood/en/www/myshospp.htm.
- ↑ "Horsfiline, an oxindole alkaloid from Horsfieldia superba". Journal of Organic Chemistry 56 (23): 6527–6530. 1991. doi:10.1021/jo00023a016.
- ↑ IPNI
- ↑ Tropicos
- ↑ IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
- ↑ "The Plant List". http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/search?q=horsfieldia.
Wikidata ☰ Q732379 entry
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