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Millettia
Sign in to saveMillettia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It consists of about 169 species of shrubs, lianas or trees, which are native to tropical and subtropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, southern China, Malesia, and New Guinea. Typical habitats include tropical rain forest and seasonally-dry lowland and upland forest and forest margins, woodland, thicket, wooded grassland, and secondary vegetation.
Species
Chinese wisteria
Genus
- PhylumForaminifera
- ClassNodosariata
- OrderPolymorphinida
- FamilyGlandulinidae
Millettia es un género de foraminífero bentónico de la familia Millettiidae, de la superfamilia Buliminoidea, del suborden Buliminina y del orden Buliminida. Su especie tipo es Sangrina tessellata. Su rango cronoestratigráfico abarca el Holoceno.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,205
- With media
- 973
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- NY, US, NHMUK, A
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Tanzania, Myanmar, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Burundi, Gabon
Research
430 papers- Millettia isoflavonoids: a comprehensive review of structural diversity, extraction, isolation, and pharmacological properties.Phytochemistry reviews : proceedings of the Phytochemical Society of Europe · 2023
- A review on genus Millettia: Traditional uses, phytochemicals and pharmacological activities.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2020
- Millettia speciosa and By-Products: A Comprehensive Review of Chemical Composition, Bioactivities, Safety, and Industrial Applications.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
- Karanjin.Phytochemistry · 2021
- Cytotoxicity of isoflavones from Millettia dura.Natural product research · 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Millettieae
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- taxon common name
- 鸡血藤属
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- Etymology
- Uses
- Species
- References
Millettia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It consists of about 169 species of shrubs, lianas or trees, which are native to tropical and subtropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, southern China, Malesia, and New Guinea. Typical habitats include tropical rain forest and seasonally-dry lowland and upland forest and forest margins, woodland, thicket, wooded grassland, and secondary vegetation.
== Description == In 1834, in Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis Robert Wight and George Arnott Walker-Arnott describe Millettia as:
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