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Marsdenia
Sign in to saveMarsdenia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1810. It is named in honor of the plant collector and Secretary of the Admiralty, William Marsden. The plants are native to tropical regions in Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.
Species
Australian Cow-plant
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderGentianales
- FamilyApocynaceae
General: The delimitation of Marsdenia adopted here largely follows
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 763
- With media
- 453
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Collections
- CICY, ECOSUR, INECOL, IBUNAM, IIB-UV, FC-UNAM
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Research
223 papers- Marsdenia tenacissima extract accelerates ferroptosis of osteosarcoma cells by upregulating HO-1 and activating mitophagy.Journal of ethnopharmacology · 2025
- The Antitumor Activities of Marsdenia tenacissima.Frontiers in oncology · 2018
- Marsdenia tenacissima genome reveals calcium adaptation and tenacissoside biosynthesis.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2023
- Marsdenia tenacissima enhances immune response of tumor infiltrating T lymphocytes to colorectal cancer.Frontiers in immunology · 2023
- Oral and injectable Marsdenia tenacissima extract (MTE) as adjuvant therapy to chemotherapy for gastric cancer: a systematic review.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2019
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
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- References
Marsdenia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1810. It is named in honor of the plant collector and Secretary of the Admiralty, William Marsden. The plants are native to tropical regions in Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.
==Species== , Plants of the World Online accepted the following 69 species:
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