Cuphea
Sign in to savethumb|left|Cuphea ignea flowers resemble a tiny burning [[cigar in color, hence the common name "cigar plant"]]
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMyrtales
- FamilyLythraceae
萼距花属又名克菲亞草屬（学名：Cuphea）是千屈菜科下的一个属，为草本或灌木植物。该属共有约300种，分布于南、北美洲。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6,638
- With media
- 1,432
- Family
- Lythraceae
- Collections
- ECOSUR, CICY, INECOL, DERN-IMECBIO-CUCSUR-UDG, FC-UNAM, IBUNAM
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Research
142 papers- Cuphea: a new plant source of medium-chain fatty acids.Critical reviews in food science and nutrition · 1989
- The Genus Cuphea P. Browne as a Source of Biologically Active Phytochemicals for Pharmaceutical Application and Beyond-A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
- Cuphea spp.: antichemotactic study for a potential anti-inflammatory drug.Natural product research · 2021
- Cuphea calophylla var. mesostemon (Koehne) S.A. Graham: A Whole-Ethnopharmacological Investigation.Journal of medicinal food · 2021
- The chloroplast genome of Cuphea hookeriana Walp. (Lythraceae), a Mexico ornamental plant.Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Uses
- Selected species
- References
thumb|left|Cuphea ignea flowers resemble a tiny burning [[cigar in color, hence the common name "cigar plant"]]
Cuphea is a genus containing about 260 species of annual and perennial flowering plants native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas. The species range from low-growing herbaceous plants to semi-woody shrubs up to tall. Commonly they are known as cupheas, or, in the case of some species, as cigar plants. The generic name is derived from the Greek word κυφος (kyphos), meaning "bent," "curved," or "humped."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cuphea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.