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Internal ID UUID644010e449742317522447
Scientific name Chironia palustris
Authority Burch.
First published in Trav. S. Africa 2: 226 (1824)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Plocandra albens E.Mey. Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. : 182 (1838)
Plocandra palustris Griseb. Prodr. 9: 43 (1845)
Chironia maxima Schoch Bull. Herb. Boissier , sér. 2, 2: 1014 (1902)
Chironia palustris var. foliata (Griseb.) Prain Fl. Cap. 4(1): 1106 1909
Chironia palustris subsp. rosacea (Gilg) Verd. Bothalia 7: 460 1961
Chironia rosacea Gilg Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 104 (1898)

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Language Common/alternative name
English cerise stars
English transvaal chironia
Afrikaans bitterwortel
st khomo-ea-sephatla
st lehlapahali
st lepshetlane
st mosia
st thatjane

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Chironia palustris subsp. transvaalensis (Gilg) Verd. Bothalia 7: 460 1968
Chironia palustris subsp. palustris Unknown

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- Native
  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Tanzania
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Cape Provinces
      • Free State
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Lesotho
      • Northern Provinces
      • Swaziland
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Zaïre

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000602766
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:366861-1
The Plant List kew-2718825
Open Tree Of Life 95014
NCBI Taxonomy 592784
IPNI 366861-1
iNaturalist 582177
GBIF 5595681
Wikipedia Chironia_palustris

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Search for Bitter Principles in Chironia Species by LC-MS and Isolation of a New Secoiridoid Diglycoside from Chironia krebsii Jean-Luc Wolfender, Matthias Hamburger, Kurt Hostettmann, Jerôme D. Msonthi, Steven Mavi American Chemical Society (ACS) 31-May-2007
doi:10.1021/NP50095A004

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Organic oxygen compounds / Organooxygen compounds / Carbohydrates and carbohydrate conjugates / Glycosyl compounds / O-glycosyl compounds
(3S,4R,4aR)-4a-hydroxy-4-[(2S)-oxiran-2-yl]-3-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxy-3,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrano[3,4-c]pyran-8-one 14543433 Click to see C1COC(=O)C2=COC(C(C21O)C3CO3)OC4C(C(C(C(O4)CO)O)O)O 390.34 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50095A004
Gentiopicroside 88708 Click to see 356.32 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50095A004

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