Huberantha cerasoides

Huberantha cerasoides
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Magnoliales
Family:	Annonaceae
Genus:	Huberantha
Species:	H. cerasoides
Binomial name
Huberantha cerasoides (Roxb.) Chaowasku
Synonyms
Guatteria bifaria A.DC. Guatteria cerasoides (Roxb.) Dunal Hubera cerasoides (Roxb.) Chaowasku Polyalthia bifaria (A.DC.) Hook.f. & Thomson Polyalthia cerasoides (Roxb.) Bedd. Polyalthia crassipetala Merr. Unona cerasoides (Roxb.) Baill. Uvaria cerasoides Roxb.

Huberantha cerasoides (synonym Polyalthia cerasoides) is a species of trees in the family Annonaceae and tribe Miliuseae. It is the type species of the relatively new genus Huberantha.

It is native to southern China including Hainan, Indo-China, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

Description

This is a small tree species with yellow flowers and single-seeded fruit, in clusters (see illustrations).

Vernacular names

This species is known as "පට්ට උල් කෙන්ද - patta ul kenda" in Sinhala Language and quần đầu trái tròn in Vietnamese.

References

• Ravikumar YS, Mahadevan KM, Kumaraswamy MN, et al. (September 2008). "Antioxidant, cytotoxic and genotoxic evaluation of alcoholic extract of Polyalthia cerasoides (Roxb.) Bedd". Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology. 26 (2): 142–6. doi:10.1016/j.etap.2008.03.001. PMID 21783902.
• Kanokmedhakul S, Kanokmedhakul K, Lekphrom R (September 2007). "Bioactive constituents of the roots of Polyalthia cerasoides". Journal of Natural Products. 70 (9): 1536–8. doi:10.1021/np070293a. PMID 17845001.

External links

• Data related to Huberantha cerasoides at Wikispecies
• http://www.biotik.org/laos/species/p/polce/polce_en.html
• http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=600&taxon_id=200008574
• http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/249383