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Rinorea Welwitschii
''Rinorea welwitschii'' is a plant species in the genus ''Rinorea ''Rinorea'' is a genus of plant in family Violaceae. Species include: * '' Rinorea abbreviata'' G. Achoundong & J.J. Bos * '' Rinorea acommanthera'' Gagnep. * '' Rinorea antioquiensis'' Smith & Fernández * '' Rinorea bicornuta'' Hekking * '' R ...'' found in Africa. The pyranoisoflavone alpinumisoflavone can be found in the bark of ''R. welwitschii''.Pyranoisoflavones from ''Rinorea welwitschii''. M. Stewart, B. Bartholomew, F. Currie, D. K. Abbiw, Z. Latif, S. D. Sarker and R. J. Nash, Fitoterapia, Volume 71, Issue 5, 1 September 2000, Pages 595-597, References External links ''Rinorea welwitschii'' at liberianfaunaflora.org welwitschii {{Violaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Oliver (botanist)
Daniel Oliver, FRS (6 February 1830, Newcastle upon Tyne – 21 December 1916) was an English botanist. He was Librarian of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1860–1890 and Keeper there from 1864–1890, and Professor of Botany at University College, London from 1861–1888. In 1864, while at UCL, he published ''Lessons in Elementary Biology'', based upon material left in manuscript by John Stevens Henslow, and illustrated by Henslow's daughter, Anne Henslow Barnard of Cheltenham. With a second edition in 1869 and a third in 1878 this book was reprinted until at least 1891. Oliver regarded this book as suitable for use in schools and for young people remote from the classroom and laboratory. He was elected a member of the Linnean Society, awarded their Gold Medal in 1893, and awarded a Royal Medal by the Royal Society in 1884. He married in 1861 and was the father of two daughters and a son, Francis Wall Oliver. In 1895, botanist Tiegh published '' Oliverella'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Kuntze
Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (23 June 1843 – 27 January 1907) was a German botanist. Biography Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig. An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled ''Pocket Fauna of Leipzig''. Between 1863 and 1866 he worked as tradesman in Berlin and traveled through central Europe and Italy. From 1868 to 1873 he had his own factory for essential oils and attained a comfortable standard of living. Between 1874 and 1876, he traveled around the world: the Caribbean, United States, Japan, China, South East Asia, Arabian peninsula and Egypt. The journal of these travels was published as "Around the World" (1881). From 1876 to 1878 he studied Natural Science in Berlin and Leipzig and gained his doctorate in Freiburg with a monography of the genus '' Cinchona''. He edited the botanical collection from his world voyage encompassing 7,700 specimens in Berlin and Kew Gardens. The publication came as a shock to botany, since Kuntze had entirely revised taxonom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rinorea
''Rinorea'' is a genus of plant in family Violaceae. Species include: * '' Rinorea abbreviata'' G. Achoundong & J.J. Bos * '' Rinorea acommanthera'' Gagnep. * '' Rinorea antioquiensis'' Smith & Fernández * '' Rinorea bicornuta'' Hekking * '' Rinorea brachythrix'' S.F.Blake * '' Rinorea cordata'' Smith & Fernández * ''Rinorea crenata'' S.F.Blake * '' Rinorea dasyadena'' Robyns * ''Rinorea deflexa'' (Bentham) S.F.Blake * '' Rinorea deflexiflora'' Bartlett * '' Rinorea dentata'' (P. Beauv.) * '' Rinorea endotricha'' Sandwith * ''Rinorea fausteana'' Achoundong * '' Rinorea guatemalensis'' (S. Watson) Bartlett * ''Rinorea haughtii'' Smith & Fernández * '' Rinorea hirsuta'' Hekking * '' Rinorea hummelii'' Sprague * ''Rinorea hymenosepala'' S.F.Blake * ''Rinorea keayi'' Brenan * '' Rinorea laurifolia'' Smith & Fernández * ''Rinorea longistipulata'' Hekking * '' Rinorea marginata'' ( Triana & Planchon) Rusby ex Johnston * '' Rinorea maximiliani'' ( Eichler in Martius) Kuntze * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpinumisoflavone
Alpinumisoflavone is a pyranoisoflavone, a type of isoflavone. It can be found in the bark of ''Rinorea welwitschii''. It can also be found in the molluscicide plant '' Millettia thonningii'' and is thought to be an antischistosomal Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, bilharzia, and Katayama fever, is a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes. The urinary tract or the intestines may be infected. Symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloody ... agent since it has been shown to kill the snails which transmit the schistosomiasis and also the larvae of the parasite itself. References Pyranoisoflavones {{aromatic-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |