Rubiaceae - Science topic

Gnahore E, Douffi KG-C, N'guessan YJ, Amba AJG, Ibrahima D, Kone M, Bakayoko A. 2023. Floristic composition and structure of closed and open forests in the Banco National Park, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Asian J For 7: 17-26. Natural ecosystems are pressured to degradation caused by human activities. To develop conservation guidelines for these ecosys...

African Flora to Fight Bacterial Resistance, Part Two: The Best Source of Herbal Drugs and Pharmaceuticals, Volume 107 offers detailed information on the best African medicinal plants that could be useful for the development of efficient herbal drugs, as well as the best phytochemicals that could be explored as potential pharmaceuticals to efficien...

The genera Prangos Lindl. and Cachrys L., for a long time interpreted as a single genus but today distinct and separate, and both belonging to the majestic Apiaceae family, are species with a large distribution and are used in ethnomedicine in various countries, especially in Asian countries. In this context, we investigated the chemical characteri...

Wound care will always be among the main tasks in all surgical specialties. Several medicinal plants have proven efficacy to cure wounds. Ethnobotanical research and ethnopharmacological research have virtually endless potential to find new lead compounds. The aim of this research review is to assess the potential of some Gentiana species as source...

It is hypothesized that in heterostylous plant species, standardization of signals of floral attraction between different morphs is advantageous, encouraging flower visitors to switch between morphs. It remains unclear whether signals of floral attraction (floral odor and properties of nectar) are similar between morphs in distylous species pollina...

Tropical East Africa (TEA) is one of the most important biodiversity hotspots on the planet. Its rich flora diversity and inventory have been clearly recognized after the publication of the last volume of the Flora of Tropical East Africa (FTEA) in 2012. However, many new and newly recorded taxa have been named and documented since the publication...

Background and aims – The genus Cephalanthus belongs to the tribe Naucleeae together with 26 other genera. Members of Cephalanthus mainly grow in temperate and subtropical wetlands in the Americas and Asia, but there is a single African species that is associated with forest margins and rocky outcrops in moist temperate grasslands. The genus compri...

Seedling growth in the nursery and early field performance of three fast-growing tree species from the Rubiaceae family, i.e., white jabon (Neolamarckia cadamba), red jabon (Neolamarckia macrophylla, and gempol (Nauclea orientalis), were tested by using different seedling media and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) treatments in the nursery and mi...

Psychotria philippensis (Rubiaceae) was described by Chamisso and Schlechtendal in 1829, was the first Psychotria name published for the Philippines and is currently considered a Philippine endemic. The name remained in a taxonomic limbo for almost two centuries as it was variously accepted, synonymized or considered obscure, probably because the t...

Pauridiantha paucinervis var. Lyalli (Rubiaceae)[1][2] is a plant abounding in alkaloid compounds[3] of which the quinoline derivatives are the majority. An alkaloid quinoline has been isolated for the first time of this plant. The chemical formula of this compound is C26H30N2O9 while its mass is M = 514. This plant can be found and bought everywhe...

A new species of Hedyotis L. (Rubiaceae), Hedyotis konhanungensis B.H. Quang, T.A. Le, K.S. Nguyen & Neupane, is described and illustrated from the central highlands of Vietnam based on morphological and phylogenetic evidence. The new species belongs to the morphologically diverse tribe Spermacoceae (ca. 1000 species) of the family Rubiaceae, which...

Momordica charantia Linn. (Cucurbitaceae), the wild variety of bitter melon, and Morinda lucida Benth (Rubiaceae) were commonly used as a popular folk medicine in Benin. This study aimed to appreciate the ethnopharmacological knowledge and evaluate the antioxidant and anti�inflammatory effects of M. charantia and M. lucida leaves extracts. Semi-str...

Plant and insect shares strong mutual relationship in terms of pollination and nesting place. This study documented insect-plants relationship and diversities within Delta State University (DELSU) Campus, Abraka. Sampling for insect and their associated plant species were carried out within in two campus (Site II and II) of DELSU, Abraka. Sweep net...

The state Uttarakhand is rich with floral and faunal diversity including plants used by local inhabitance to cure health problems. Himalayan region always has been the treasure of herbs from ancient time. Himalayan herbs are highest in quality and potency. There are numbers of side effect are noted using allopathic medicines which leads towards reu...

Endoparasitic Cordyceps species infect pest insects and other arthropods all throughout the world. Ophiocordyceps nutans like specimens were found in the Lat and Dung K’no of the Lac Duong district during entomogenous fungi forays in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park. However, observations made over the last two years (2021 - 2022) in various forest loca...

RESUME Cette étude a pour objectif de contribuer à une meilleure connaissance des espèces ligneuses du Parc National de la Kibira (PNK) au Burundi utilisées par les populations des collines riveraines afin de proposer des mesures de gestion durable du potentiel ligneux de ce parc. L'approche méthodologique utilisée est basée sur l'enquête ethnobota...

Background: The evolution of heterostyly, a genetically controlled floral polymorphism, has been a hotspot of research since the 19th century. In recent years, studies on the molecular mechanism of distyly (the most common form of heterostyly) revealed an evolutionary convergence in genes for brassinosteroids (BR) degradation in different angiosper...

RESUMEN. Introducción: La regeneración natural es una solución de bajo costo y basada en la naturaleza para restaurar parte de los hábitats degradados por la deforestación. Objetivo: Documentar la composición florística de un fragmento de vegetación en regeneración de bosque muy húmedo premontano. Métodos: Hicimos un inventario florístico en 5,59ha...

All 147 new vascular taxa that are added to the flora of Bangladesh in this study are not included in Flora of British India, Bengal Plants, The Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, or Rahman's research publications. These new taxa are categorized into 111 genera and 53 families. A total of 3,956 vascular taxa have been reported for the f...

Local communities in Mzimba District, Malawi, have limited access to healthcare services and often rely on traditional medical practice and medicinal plants (MPs) for most of their medical care. However, phytomedicines’ use has not been well documented. This study aimed to identify and document medicinal plants and the associated ethnobotanical kno...

Phytochemical investigation on the bark of Nauclea officinalis led to the isolation of a new monoterpenoid indole alkaloid, nauclediol. The structure of the compound was identified through extensive spectroscopic analysis. Nauclediol displayed cholinesterase-inhibitory activities towards AChE and BChE with IC50 values of 15.429 and 8.756 µM, respec...

Neolamarckia cadamba is an Indian traditional medicinal plant having various therapeutic potentials. In the present study, we did solvent-based extraction of Neolamarckia cadamba leaves. The extracted samples were screened against liver cancer cell line (HepG2) and bacteria (Escherichia coli). MTT cytotoxic assay was performed for in vitro analysis...

Integrative taxonomy is a fundamental part of biodiversity and combines traditional morphology with additional methods such as DNA sequencing or biochemistry. Here, we aim to establish untargeted metabolomics for use in chemotaxonomy. We used three thallose liverwort species Riccia glauca, R. sorocarpa, and R. warnstorfii (order Marchantiales, Ricc...

Bioactive-guided investigation of the aerial parts of Mussaenda recurvata Naiki, Tagane, and Yahara (Rubiaceae) led to the isolation of four triterpenes, including two new triterpenes recurvatanes A and B (1 and 2), along with two known compounds 3β,6β,23-trihydroxyolean-12-en-28-oic acid (3) and 3β,6β,19α,23-tetrahydroxyolean-12-en-28-oic acid (4)...

Objetivo: Conocer la comunidad de arañas (Araneae) asociadas a Ixora coccinea en Chiriquí, Panamá. Metodología: Se visitaron siete localidades de la Provincia de Chiriquí, ubicadas en los Distritos de David, Boquerón, Bugaba y Barú; en un transecto de 60 km. Se realizó monitoreo aleatorio en plantas de Ixora coccinea, sumando un total de 215 m de c...

Plants have been used by humans as a primary source of care in medicine since ancient times. Currently, about 80% of the population in southern Africa uses traditional medicine to meet their primary healthcare needs. The aim of this study was to document the healing plants traditionally used in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A systematic analysi...

The formation of acid mine drainage (AMD) is a common environmental problem in the mining industry. Its passive management through wetland construction has gained more consideration in recent years. However, the application in the field is constrained by the large area and relatively shallow depth. Indonesia has no passive technology to neutralize...

Spermacoce hispida L. is reported here for the first time in Banaskantha district from North Gujarat, India. Brief descriptions along with photographs are provided to facilitate easy recognition of this species.

The island of Grande-Terre is a French overseas region that belongs to the Guadeloupean archipelago, a biodiversity hotspot with unique flora. Herbal medicine is widely used in the island for therapeutical purposes; however, there is a significant knowledge gap in the records relating to medicinal plants and their associated uses. Ethnobotanical su...

Why do some genomes stay small and simple while others become huge, and why are some genomes more stable? In contrast to angiosperms and gymnosperms, liverworts are characterized by small genomes with low variation in size, and conserved chromosome numbers. We quantified genome evolution among five Marchantiophyta (liverworts), measuring gene chara...

Hemorrhagic cystitis is a side effect of chemotherapy induced by an antineoplastic agent from the oxazaphosphorine group (ifosfamide and cyclophosphamide), resulting from the formation of the urotoxic metabolite acrolein. Morinda citrifolia Linn., popularly known as noni, is a species of Rubiaceae, where it is used from the root to the fruit for th...

The Rubiaceae family is an essential component of the flora of the Lesser Antilles archipelago located in the Caribbean. There are 129 species of Rubiaceae divided into 54 genera, including 20 endemic species. Martinique, a mountainous island occupying a central position in the archipelago, is home to 89 species of the family divided into 41 genera...

Erectile dysfunction has become for two decades, a real public health problem. Its prevalence is estimated at 322 million in 2025. Its management is based on the administration of phosphodiesterase inhibitors alone or in combination. Infections have been rarely mentioned although E coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae or Serratia marc...

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive Amazonian plant brew. It is usually made from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine (Spruce ex Griseb. Morton, Malpighiaceae), which contains three primary harmala alkaloids, along with the leaves of Psychotria viridis (Ruiz et Pavon, Rubiaceae) in which the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is found. DMT-harmaloid con...

Non-destructive methods that accurately estimate leaf area (LA) and leaf weight (LW) are simple and inexpensive, and represent powerful tools in the development of physiological and agronomic research. The objective of this research is to generate mathematical models for estimating the LA and LW of Cinchona officinalis leaves. A total of 220 leaves...

Susanti Y, Supiandi MI, Julung H, Zubaidah S, Mahanal S. 2023. Lexicon of medicinal plants in traditional medicine in the Dayak Tamambaloh Tribe (West Kalimantan, Indonesia): An ethnolinguistic approach. Biodiversitas 24: 391-398. The Dayak Tamambaloh community in Temau Village, Embaloh Hulu Subdistrict, Kapuas Hulu District, West Kalimantan Provin...

Phytochemical investigation of the dichloromethane crude extract from the bark of Ochreinauclea maingayi with the aid of LCMS/MS-based molecular networking guided the isolation and accelerated the elucidation of known and new indole alkaloids. The molecular networking analysis produces two main clusters, along with 41 non-prioritized clusters and s...

Diabetes mellitus prevalence in Indonesia reached 19.5 million cases, which has affected the productive age population. The indigenous people of Indonesia are blessed with the second largest biodiversity in the world, including vegetables, which are also prepared as medicaments. Vegetables are well-known as natural antioxidants which evolved in met...

El estudio de poblaciones forestales representa una parte de las bases para entender la sucesión ecológica en comunidades vegetales, pues estas son componentes principales en los bosques e influyen en los recursos y estructura f ísica de los hábitats de los organismos que ahí conviven. Para entender la dinámica poblacional de especies forestales se...

Coffea arabica, a member of the Rubiaceae family, is the most commercially important species of the genus Coffea. It has been grown on the mountain terraces of southwestern Saudi Arabia for centuries. At present, the species is subject to increased genetic erosion due to the abandonment of many gardens by their owners and the increasingly dry clima...

Review of specimens of Psychotria L. (i.e., Psychotria s. str., Psychotria subg. Psychotria) from Madagascar has revealed some species new to science. Here we describe and provide Red List conservation status assessments for 10 new species of Malagasy Psychotria: P. anosiana C. M. Taylor and P. apomurioides C. M. Taylor are found in humid forest in...

Vamana is the Agrya karma for Kaphaja vikaras. Madanaphala - Randia dumetorum Lam is the drug of choice for Vamana karma because of its property – Anapayitwat (without untoward effect). Specific collection method, season and processing is required to get Phalapippali to possess above quality. Madana shalatu– Unripen fruits of Madanaphala is an Abha...

Ophiorrhiza baviensis Drake, a flowering medical plant in the Rubiaceae, exists uncertainly within the Ophiorrhiza genus’ evolutionary relationships. For the first time, the whole chloroplast (cp) genome of an O. baviensis Drake species was sequenced and annotated. Our findings demonstrate that the complete cp genome of O. baviensis is 154,770 bp i...

Introduction: Lucid morinda (L) A medium-sized evergreen tree of the Morinda genus, the Benth (M. lucida, Rubiaceae) is a tropical West African rainforest plant that is also known as the Brimstone tree. In several West African nations, it is utilized in traditional medicine to cure a variety of human ailments. Phytosomes are freshly developed herba...

A literatura revela que as tribos Psychotrieae e Spermacoceae (Rubiaceae) têm problemas de delimitação de gêneros e espécies e sugere a necessidade de novos estudos, particularmente de natureza morfológica. Neste contexto, a presente investigação objetiva o estudo da estrutura floral e a morfologia de coléteres de nove espécies de ambas as tribos....

Vitex madiensis Oliv. (Lamiaceae) and Crossopteryx febrifuga (Rubiaceae), two plants commonly used in traditional African medicines to treat malaria and pain, were studied either to determine their chemical profiles or to evaluate their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. In this study, we investigated leaves, trunk bark, root bark and fr...

Aim: Vascular plants have undergone different level of disturbance due to unprecedented increase in anthropogenic activities, which have led to cutting of plants for fuel wood, charcoal production and infrastructural development. This paper ascertained the species Composition and diversity of vascular plants in the Rhizha mountain forest area of Jo...

Forest ecotones are floristically rich but anthropogenic disturbances can differentiate their vegetation structure. This study evaluated the understory diversity of urban and nonurban forests in Maranhão. It tested the hypotheses that the understory of the nonurban forest has greater diversity and richness and that the spatial distribution of these...

Seed germination is the fundamental phenomenon that determines the successful growth and development of each plant species, even more so in Cinchona officinalis, which is a forest species that stands out for its medicinal importance. The objective of this work was to determine the best sigmoidal mathematical model describing the germination of C. o...

Background and aims – Ongoing studies on Mexican Rubiaceae revealed an undescribed species of Coutaportla endemic to the Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests in the state of Sinaloa, near the border with Durango, Mexico. The species is here described and illustrated, and its morphological characters are compared with those of the other species...

Introduction Products of plant secondary metabolism, such as phenolic compounds, flavonoids, alkaloids, and hormones, play an important role in plant growth, development, stress resistance. The plant family Rubiaceae is extremely diverse and abundant in Central America and contains several economically important genera, e.g. Coffea and other medici...

Resumen: Galianthe valerianoides (Spermacoceae-Rubiaceae) es registrada por primera vez para la flora de Uruguay (Dpto. Rivera), y como consecuencia, el área de su distribución se extiende hasta su límite más austral. Se presenta una descripción morfológica detallada, un mapa de distribución en el Uruguay, y fotografías del hábitat de G. valerianoi...

Aims: This study was aimed at determining the ecological health of two roadside streams across the Tiko-Douala highway, Cameroon, and investigating the phytoremediation potentials of dominant aquatic macrophytes within these streams. Study Design: Water, sediments, and aquatic plant samples were collected from Camp 7 and Moqouo streams, and analyze...

El árbol Stenostomum aromaticum es conocido por los pobladores como Chicahuastle. Es una especie con distribución geográfica muy restringida y donde los registros de herbario y muestreos de campo la ubican como endémica de México. Por conteos recientes, se conoce que el número de ejemplares de este árbol es de alrededor de 500 individuos entre juve...

Species in Gentiana section Cruciata are important alpine plants with a center of diversity and speciation in Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), and some of these species are sympatrically distributed in northeastern QTP. Studies on genome features and natural selection signatures of sympatric species in section Crucata have been impeded by a lack of gen...

Rubia cordifolia L. (Rubiaceae), one of the traditional anti-rheumatic herbal medicines in China, has been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) since ancient times. Purpurin, an active compound of Rubia cordifolia L., has been identified in previous studies and exerts antibacterial, antigenotoxic, anticancer, and antioxidant effects. However, th...

The Rubiaceae family taxonomic classification is complex. Genus Rubia with 70 species belongs to Rubieae tribe of Rubioideae subfamily of the Rubiaceae family. These species have been widely distributed and cultivated around the world, and are mainly concentrated in the tropics. The effects of bioactive metabolites of various parts, particularly ro...

Four continents and numerous developing contries benefit economically from the annual income and jobs that coffee provides. The only polyploid species found in the genus Coffea is called Coffea arabic a, and it belongs to the Rubiaceae family. In order to commercially propagate plants or to learn more about key concepts in somatic embryo induction...

Ayurveda is a pelagic with lashing quantities of proclaimed and unrevealed medicinal gems. Due to the morphological structure and lack of knowledge certain medicinal gems of Ayurveda are debatable. Such as Adina cordifolia which is one of the controversial kind of drug. Adina cordifolia is the Saffron Teak, Yellow, Belonging to family Rubiaceae, su...

The study of alkaloids from methanolic extract of Crucianella sintenisii from Rubiaceae family has not been studied yet. In this research, the methanolic extract was initially prepared from the aerial parts of Crucianella sintenisii, and then the resulting extract was acidified by acetic acid to remove neutral compounds. The neutral compounds were...

Trailliaedoxa gracilis (Rubiaceae) is a Chinese endemic monotypic genus distributed in southwestern China. This study reported the complete chloroplast genome of T. gracilis assembled from Illumina sequencing reads. The chloroplast genome size is 152,407 bp, containing a single large copy (LSC) region of 82,957 bp, a short single copy (SSC) region...

Culex quinquefasciatus is the transmitter of some dreadful vector-borne diseases. Such diseases can be controlled by managing the vector population. In this study, the mosquito larvicidal activity of the leaf extracts of a deciduous shrub Vangueria spinosa was evaluated for the first time. Larval mortalities were assessed using crude and different...

The floristic composition, diversity, and conservation status of woody plant species in Ethiopia are determined in this study. Data on vegetation are collected using a systematic random sampling method from 45 20 m × 20 m (400m2) plots laid every 100 m along four parallel transect lines running from south to north. The Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea...

The floristic composition, diversity, and conservation status of woody plant species in Ethiopia are determined in this study. Data on vegetation are collected using a systematic random sampling method from 45 20 m × 20 m (400m²) plots laid every 100 m along four parallel transect lines running from south to north. The Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea...