Adenia
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Translingual
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Etymology
[edit]1763 from Forsskål, who has recorded Arabic عَدَن (ʕadan) for Adenia venenata and added the suffix + -ia; it stayed the only known species of the genus for a century. Doublet of Adenium for which the Arabic name is used.
Proper noun
[edit]Adenia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Passifloraceae – flowering plants in the passionflower family, found in Southeast Asia and tropical and subtropical Africa.
- 1993, Discovery and Innovation - Volume 5 (in English), page 113:
- From the literature, the work on Adenia species has been centred on its toxicity and the mode of poisoning of the identified toxic components.
- 1996, Hans Dieter Neuwinger, African Ethnobotany: Poisons and Drugs (in English), →ISBN:
- In recent years, very potent toxic proteins have been isolated from Adenia species. Astonishingly, up to now only two members of the Passifloraceae are known as hunting poisons; both belong to the genus Adenia: A. lobata in west Africa and A. volkensii in east Africa.
- 2007, Klaus Kubitzki, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Volume IX (in English), →ISBN, page 272:
- The stylodia of Adenia are grooved and the pollen tube conducting tissue is on the surface of the ventral slit.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids, COM clade - clades; Malpighiales - order; Passifloraceae - family
Hyponyms
[edit]- (genus): Adenia venenata - type species
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Adenia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Adenia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Adenia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Adenia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Adenia at Germplasm Resources Information Network
- Adenia at Tropicos