Dioclea

Dioclea is also the Latin name of the medieval Montenegrin state and of an Illyrian city, see: Duklja and Doclea (city).
Dioclea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Phaseoleae
Subtribe: Diocleinae
Genus: Dioclea
Kunth
Species

Around 50, see text


Dioclea is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the Americas. The seeds of these legumes are buoyant drift seeds, and are dispersed by rivers.

Species[1]

  • Dioclea albiflora
  • Dioclea apurensis
  • Dioclea aurea
  • Dioclea bicolor
  • Dioclea burkartii
  • Dioclea cassinoides (disputed)
  • Dioclea coriacea
  • Dioclea decandra
  • Dioclea densiflora
  • Dioclea dichrona (disputed)
  • Dioclea dictyoneura
  • Dioclea edulis
  • Dioclea erecta
  • Dioclea ferruginea
  • Dioclea fimbriata
  • Dioclea flexuosa
  • Dioclea funalis
  • Dioclea glabra
  • Dioclea grandiflora
  • Dioclea guianensis
  • Dioclea hexandra – bejuco de mato
  • Dioclea holtiana
  • Dioclea huberi
  • Dioclea javanica (disputed)
  • Dioclea latifolia
  • Dioclea lehmannii (disputed)
  • Dioclea leiantha
  • Dioclea macrantha
  • Dioclea macrocarpa
  • Dioclea malacocarpa
  • Dioclea marginata
  • Dioclea megacarpa
  • Dioclea mollicoma
  • Dioclea mollis (disputed)
  • Dioclea odorata (disputed)
  • Dioclea ornithoryncha (disputed)
  • Dioclea paniculata
  • Dioclea pulchra
  • Dioclea reflexa
  • Dioclea rigida
  • Dioclea rostrata (disputed)
  • Dioclea ruddiae
  • Dioclea rufescens
  • Dioclea schimpffii (disputed)
  • Dioclea schottii
  • Dioclea sclerocarpa
  • Dioclea sericea
  • Dioclea ucayalina
  • Dioclea umbrina
  • Dioclea violacea
  • Dioclea virgata
  • Dioclea wilsonii – Wilson's Clusterpea
  • Dioclea sp. "9068"[2]
  • Dioclea sp. "11722"[2]

Dioclea macrocarpa - MHNT

Chemistry

The A-type proanthocyanidin, epigallocatechin-(2β→7,4β→8)-epicatechin, together with epicatechin, luteolin 3′β-d-glucopyranoside, chrysoeriol 7β-d-glucopyranoside and 2-methylpentan-2,4-diol, can be found in the leaves of Dioclea lasiophylla,[3]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ ILDIS (2005)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 ILDIS (2001)
  3. ↑ Barreiros, André L. B. S.; David, Juceni P.; de Queiroz, Luciano P.; David, Jorge M. (December 2000). "A-type proanthocyanidin antioxidant from Dioclea lasiophylla". Phytochemistry 55 (7): 805–8. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)00297-1. PMID 11190400.

References

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