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Stemonaceae
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The Stemonaceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants placed in the order Pandanales. The family consists of four genera with ca 37 known species distributed in areas with seasonal climate across Southeast Asia and tropical Australia. One native species is found in the United States. In earlier systems the family was called Roxburghiaceae, after Roxburghia, now Stemona.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPandanales
- FamilyStemonaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Stemonaceae
- Collections
- US, MEL, SJNM, NY, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Myanmar, Japan, United States, Indonesia
Research
200 papers- The complete chloroplast genome of Stemona tuberosa Lour (Stemonaceae).Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources · 2021
- Anti-inflammatory maistemonine-class alkaloids of Stemona japonica.Natural products and bioprospecting · 2023
- Pandanus alkaloids in Stemonaceae: finding of a plausible biogenetic origin of Stemona alkaloids.Journal of natural products · 2009
- Strategies for the synthesis of Stemona alkaloids: an update.Natural product reports · 2022
- Simultaneous quantification of stemocurtisine, stemocurtisinol and stemofoline in Stemona curtisii (Stemonaceae) by TLC-densitometric method.Journal of chromatographic science · 2013
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Ecology
- Uses
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
The Stemonaceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants placed in the order Pandanales. The family consists of four genera with ca 37 known species distributed in areas with seasonal climate across Southeast Asia and tropical Australia. One native species is found in the United States. In earlier systems the family was called Roxburghiaceae, after Roxburghia, now Stemona.
== Description == The stems may be erect or trailing, green or yellow-green, or sometimes reddish. Leaves are dark green and also alternate in the majority of the members. Flowers are borne in short cymes, arising from the lower parts of the plant. Seeds are ellipsoidal or globular in shape.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stemonaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.