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Fibraurea Tinctoria
''Fibraurea'' is a plant genus in the family Menispermaceae. Species The Catalogue of Life lists the following: *'' Fibraurea darshanii'' Udayan & K.Ravik.: India ( Karnataka, Kerala) *'' Fibraurea recisa'' Pierre: southern China, Indo-China (in Việt Nam ''hoàng đằng'') - herbal *'' Fibraurea tinctoria'' Lour. (type species; synonyms: ''Fibraurea chloroleuca'' (Miers), ''Fibraurea fasciculata'' (Miers), ''Fibraurea laxa'' (Miers), ''Fibraurea trotteri'' (Watt), ''Fibraurea manipurensis'' Brace ex Diels): India, Indo-China, Malesia including Borneo. No longer included: * ''Fibraurea elliptica'' (Yamamoto) = '' Haematocarpus subpeltatus'' Merr.: ( Luzon, Philippines). * ''Fibraurea haematocarpus'' Hook.f. & Thomson = ''Haematocarpus validus'' (prev. ''H. thomsonii'') Miers References External links * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q521885 Flora of Indo-China Menispermaceae genera Menispermaceae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae (botanical Latin: 'moonseed family' from Greek ''mene'' 'crescent moon' and ''sperma'' 'seed') is a family of flowering plants. The alkaloid tubocurarine, a neuromuscular blocker and the active ingredient in the 'tube curare' form of the dart poison curare, is derived from the South American liana ''Chondrodendron tomentosum''. Several other South American genera belonging to the family have been used to prepare the 'pot' and 'calabash' forms of curare. The family contains 68 genera with some 440 species, which are distributed throughout low-lying tropical areas with some species present in temperate and arid regions. Description * Twining woody climbing plants, winding anti-clockwise (''Stephania'' winds clockwise) or vines, rarely upright shrubs or small trees, more rarely still herbaceous plants or epiphytes (''Stephania cyanantha''), perennial or deciduous, with simple to uni-serrate hairs. * Alternate spiral leaves, simple, whole, dentate, lobed to palmatifid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |