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Averrhoa
Sign in to saveAverrhoa is a genus of trees in the family Oxalidaceae. It includes five species native to Java, the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, Sulawesi, and Vietnam. The genus is named after Averroes, a 12th-century astronomer and philosopher from Al-Andalus.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderOxalidales
- FamilyOxalidaceae
General: from New Guinea: Averrhoa carambola L., Averrhoa bilimbi L
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 49
- With media
- 21
- Family
- Oxalidaceae
- Collections
- A, MO, BPBM, UNESP-IBILCE, BRIT, CM
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, United States, Peru, Caribbean, Ivory Coast, Brasil, Indonesia, Brazil
Research
266 papers- Mechanisms of star fruit (Averrhoa carambola) toxicity: A mini-review.Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology · 2020
- Averrhoa bilimbi Linn.: A review of its ethnomedicinal uses, phytochemistry, and pharmacology.Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences · 2016
- Nephrotoxicity and neurotoxicity following star fruit (Averrhoa carambola) ingestion: a narrative review.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2021
- Nutritional and medicinal properties of Star fruit (Averrhoa carambola): A review.Food science & nutrition · 2021
- Dihydrochalcone C-glycosides from Averrhoa carambola leaves.Phytochemistry · 2020
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Oxalidaceae
- Named after
- Averroes
- Image
- Bilimbi.jpg
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- Commons category
- Averrhoa
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Averrhoa
- topic's main category
- Category:Averrhoa
- taxon common name
- 阳桃属
- taxonomic type
- Averrhoa bilimbi
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Encyclopedic overview
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Averrhoa is a genus of trees in the family Oxalidaceae. It includes five species native to Java, the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, Sulawesi, and Vietnam. The genus is named after Averroes, a 12th-century astronomer and philosopher from Al-Andalus.
Two species, the carambola and the bilimbi, are cultivated for their fruits.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Averrhoa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.