Warburgia

Warburgia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Magnoliids
Order: Canellales
Family: Canellaceae
Genus: Warburgia
Engl.
Synonyms[1]
  • Chibaca G.Bertol.
  • Dawea Sprague ex Dawe

Warburgia is a genus of plant in family Canellaceae described as a genus in 1895.[2] It was named for the German botanist Otto Warburg.[3] It is native to eastern and southern Africa.[1]

Extracts of Warburgia ugandensis have been reported to show some antimalarial properties in animal models.[4][5]

Species[1]
  1. Warburgia elongata Verdc. - Tanzania
  2. Warburgia salutaris (Bertol.f.) Chiov. - Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
  3. Warburgia stuhlmannii Engl. - Tanzania, Kenya
  4. Warburgia ugandensis Sprague - Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zaire, Ethiopia to Malawi

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf. 1895. Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas C: 276
  3. ↑ PlantzAfrica: Warburgia salutaris
  4. ↑ Were, PS; Kinyanjui, P; Gicheru, MM; Mwangi, E; Ozwara, HS (2010). "Prophylactic and curative activities of extracts from Warburgia ugandensis Sprague (Canellaceae) and Zanthoxylum usambarense (Engl.) Kokwaro (Rutaceae) against Plasmodium knowlesi and Plasmodium berghei". Journal of ethnopharmacology 130 (1): 158–62. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2010.04.034. PMID 20435133.
  5. ↑ Medicinal plants on verge of extinction - environment - 10 January 2009 - New Scientist