Horsfieldia

Horsfieldia
Horsfieldia kingii habit
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Myristicaceae
Genus: Horsfieldia
Willd.
Type species
Horsfieldia odorata
Willd.
Synonyms

Horsfieldia is a genus of evergreen trees. The genus consists of about 100 species and is distributed across South Asia, from India to the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Some species are used for timber. Species in the genus sometimes contain alkaloids, including horsfiline, which has analgesic effects.

Species

Plants of the World Online currently (February 2024) includes:

List sources :

References

  1. 1 2 The genus Horsfieldia (type: Horsfieldia odorata) was first described and published in Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 4(2): 872. 1806. "Name - !Horsfieldia Willd". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved June 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)".
  3. 1 2 Li Bingtao; Thomas K. Wilson (2008). "Myristicaceae". Flora of China (PDF). Vol. 7. pp. 99–101.
  4. ↑ H. G. Richter; M. J. Dallwitz (2000). "Commercial timbers: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. In English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Version: 25th June 2009".
  5. ↑ Jossang A, Jossang P, Hadi HA, Sevenet T, Bodo B (1991). "Horsfiline, an oxindole alkaloid from Horsfieldia superba". Journal of Organic Chemistry. 56 (23): 6527–6530. doi:10.1021/jo00023a016.
  6. ↑ Plants of the World Online: Horsfieldia (retrieved 23 February 2024)
  7. ↑ IPNI
  8. ↑ Tropicos
  9. ↑ IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine