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Sabicea brasiliensis

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Species of plant

Sabicea brasiliensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Sabicea
Species: S. brasiliensis
Binomial name
Sabicea brasiliensis
Wernham

Sabicea brasiliensis is a species of woodvine in the family Rubiaceae, and is native to Brazil, and also to Bolivia. There are no synonyms. Chemical compounds isolated from its roots have been shown to have significant anti-inflammatory effects.

Description

Wernham describes it as an erect shrub. However, Standley describes it as a "large, woody vine". 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. 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. The flowers, too, are covered in a dense white woolly matting, and the inflorescence is a dense sessile head. The calyx lobes are triangular. The stamens are inserted at the mouth of the corolla tube, and both the ovary and stigma are 5-merous.

Its type specimen, k000172688 was collected in 1827 by William John Burchell.

References

  1. ^ "Sabicea brasiliensis Wernham | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  2. ^ Wernham, H.F. (1914). Monograph of the Genus Sabicea. British Museum. p. 51.
  3. ^ Standley, P.C. (1931). "The Rubiaceae of Bolivia". Field Museum of Natural History - Botany. 7 (3): 284.
  4. 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.; da Silva, C.C. (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.
  5. k000172688

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