Biology:Sabicea brasiliensis
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Genus: | Sabicea |
| Species: | S. brasiliensis
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Sabicea brasiliensis is a species of woodvine in the family Rubiaceae, and is native to Brazil ,[1] and also to Bolivia.[2][3] There are no synonyms.[1] Chemical compounds isolated from its roots have been shown to have significant anti-inflammatory effects.[4]
Description
Wernham describes it as an erect shrub.[2] However, Standley describes it as a "large, woody vine".[3] According to Wernham, the upper surface of its leaves is densely hairy, and the leaves narrow gradually to their base, making them almost without a stalk.[2] Standley, however, describes the leaves as being stalked, with densely white woolly matting on the undersurface, and covered in weak hairs on the upper surface.[3] The flowers, too, are covered in a dense white woolly matting, and the inflorescence is a dense sessile head. The calyx lobes are triangular.[3] The stamens are inserted at the mouth of the corolla tube, and both the ovary and stigma are 5-merous.[2]
Its type specimen, k000172688 was collected in 1827 by William John Burchell. [5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Sabicea brasiliensis Wernham | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:224948-2.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Wernham, H.F. (1914). Monograph of the Genus Sabicea. British Museum. p. 51. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51281508.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Standley, P.C. (1931). "The Rubiaceae of Bolivia". Field Museum of Natural History - Botany 7 (3): 284. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2393427.
- ↑ Batista, J.C.; de Oliveira Santin, S.M. de O.; Albrecht Schuquel, I.T.; Milani de Arruda, L.L.; Bersani-Amado, C.A; de Oliveira, C.M.A.; Kato, L.; Dias Ferreira, H. et al. (2014). "Chemical constituents and evaluation of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of roots of Sabicea brasiliensis Wernh (Rubiaceae)". Química Nova 37 (4). doi:10.5935/0100-4042.20140095. ISSN 0100-4042.
- ↑ k000172688
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q15444176 entry
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