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Salacia petenensis

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Internal ID UUID643ffcacce6b4208710750
Scientific name Salacia petenensis
Authority Lundell
First published in Wrightia 5: 57 (1974)

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The fruit is a drupe, about 1 cm in diameter, and is edible. The leaves are alternate, oblong-lanceolate, and have a glossy green color. The bark is smooth and gray.

Salacia petenensis is a tropical tree native to Central America, found in cloud forests and along the eastern coast of Costa Rica at elevations of 1500 to 1700 m. It has small flowers with a rotten fruit-like odor, and produces edible drupes about 1 cm in diameter. The leaves are alternate, oblong-lanceolate, and glossy green, and the bark is smooth and gray. It flowers from March through May and also in October and November.

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Salacia cordata subsp. petenensis (Lundell) Lombardi Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 114: 117 (2014)

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- Native
  • Southern America
    • Central America
      • Costa Rica
      • Guatemala
      • Panamá
    • Northern South America
      • Venezuela
    • Western South America
      • Colombia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000435674
Tropicos 15600220
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:225490-2
The Plant List kew-2480998
Open Tree Of Life 578095
NCBI Taxonomy 1136861
IUCN Red List 152000828
IPNI 225490-2
iNaturalist 316878
GBIF 5580067
Freebase /m/0405jb8
EOL 6941093
Wikipedia Salacia_petenensis

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Triterpenoids as potential agents for the chemoprevention and therapy of breast cancer Bishayee A, Ahmed S, Brankov N, Perloff M Front Biosci 01-Jan-2011
PMCID:PMC3057757
doi:10.2741/3730
PMID:21196213
Isolation and frontier molecular orbital investigation of bioactive quinone-methide triterpenoids from the bark of Salacia petenensis. Setzer WN, Holland MT, Bozeman CA, Rozmus GF, Setzer MC, Moriarity DM, Reeb S, Vogler B, Bates RB, Haber WA Planta Med 01-Feb-2001
doi:10.1055/S-2001-10879
PMID:11270725
The cytotoxic activity of a Salacia liana species from Monteverde, Costa Rica, is due to a high concentration of tingenone. Setzer WN, Setzer MC, Hopper AL, Moriarity DM, Lehrman GK, Niekamp KL, Morcomb SM, Bates RB, McClure KJ, Stessman CC, Haber WA Planta Med 01-Aug-1998
doi:10.1055/S-2006-957524
PMID:9741306

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Triterpenoids
(4aS,6aR,6aS,6bR,8aS,11R,12aR,14aS,14bS)-11-(hydroxymethyl)-4,4a,6a,6b,8a,11,14a-heptamethyl-2,4,5,6,6a,7,8,9,10,12,12a,13,14,14b-tetradecahydro-1H-picen-3-one 137705381 Click to see CC1C(=O)CCC2C1(CCC3C2(CCC4(C3(CCC5(C4CC(CC5)(C)CO)C)C)C)C)C 442.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2006-957524
(4R,4aR,6aS,6aS,6bR,8aR,12aR,14aR,14bS)-3-methoxy-4,4a,6a,6b,8a,11,11,14a-octamethyl-5,6,6a,7,8,9,10,12,12a,13,14,14b-dodecahydro-4H-picen-1-one 101286900 Click to see CC1C(=CC(=O)C2C1(CCC3C2(CCC4(C3(CCC5(C4CC(CC5)(C)C)C)C)C)C)C)OC 454.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2001-10879
29-Hydroxyfriedelan-3-one 14108943 Click to see CC1C(=O)CCC2C1(CCC3C2(CCC4(C3(CCC5(C4CC(CC5)(C)CO)C)C)C)C)C 442.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2001-10879
Canophyllol 7330581 Click to see CC1C(=O)CCC2C1(CCC3C2(CCC4(C3(CCC5(C4CC(CC5)(C)C)CO)C)C)C)C 442.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2006-957524
D:A-Friedoolean-2-en-1-one, 3-methoxy- 592899 Click to see CC1C(=CC(=O)C2C1(CCC3C2(CCC4(C3(CCC5(C4CC(CC5)(C)C)C)C)C)C)C)OC 454.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2001-10879
D:A-Friedooleanan-3-one, 29-hydroxy-, (20alpha)- 588284 Click to see CC1C(=O)CCC2C1(CCC3C2(CCC4(C3(CCC5(C4CC(CC5)(C)CO)C)C)C)C)C 442.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2001-10879
Friedelin 91472 Click to see CC1C(=O)CCC2C1(CCC3C2(CCC4(C3(CCC5(C4CC(CC5)(C)C)C)C)C)C)C 426.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2006-957524
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Steroids and steroid derivatives / Hydroxysteroids / 3-hydroxysteroids
methyl (2S,3S,4aS,6aS,14aS,14bS)-3,10-dihydroxy-2,4a,6,6a,9,14a-hexamethyl-11-oxo-3,4,5,13,14,14b-hexahydro-1H-picene-2-carboxylate 56841079 Click to see CC1=C2C3=CC=C4C(=C(C(=O)C=C4C3(CCC2(C5CC(C(CC5(C1)C)O)(C)C(=O)OC)C)C)O)C 478.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2001-10879
Methyl 3,10-dihydroxy-2,4a,6,9,12b,14a-hexamethyl-11-oxo-1,2,3,4,4a,5,11,12b,13,14,14a,14b-dodecahydropicene-2-carboxylate 188774 Click to see CC1=C2C3=CC=C4C(=C(C(=O)C=C4C3(CCC2(C5CC(C(CC5(C1)C)O)(C)C(=O)OC)C)C)O)C 478.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2001-10879
Netzahualcoyonol 21579197 Click to see CC1=C2C3=CC=C4C(=C(C(=O)C=C4C3(CCC2(C5CC(C(CC5(C1)C)O)(C)C(=O)OC)C)C)O)C 478.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2001-10879
> Organic oxygen compounds / Organooxygen compounds / Carbonyl compounds / Cyclic ketones
(6aR,6bR,8aS,11R,12aR,14aR)-3-hydroxy-4,6a,6b,8a,11,14a-hexamethyl-7,8,9,11,12,12a,13,14-octahydropicene-2,10-dione 441687 Click to see CC1CC2C(CCC3(C2(CCC4(C3=CC=C5C4=CC(=O)C(=C5C)O)C)C)C)(CC1=O)C 420.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2006-957524
https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2001-10879
3-Hydroxy-4,6a,6b,8a,11,14a-hexamethyl-7,8,9,11,12,12a,13,14-octahydropicene-2,10-dione 3527193 Click to see CC1CC2C(CCC3(C2(CCC4(C3=CC=C5C4=CC(=O)C(=C5C)O)C)C)C)(CC1=O)C 420.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2001-10879
Tingenone 101520 Click to see CC1CC2C(CCC3(C2(CCC4(C3=CC=C5C4=CC(=O)C(=C5C)O)C)C)C)(CC1=O)C 420.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1055/S-2001-10879

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