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Internal ID UUID64403bda38d0a269900140
Scientific name Exostema caribaeum
Authority (Jacq.) Roem. & Schult.
First published in Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 5: 19 (1819)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Exostema caribaeum var. velutinum Urb. Symb. Antill. 8: 665 (1921)
Cinchona caribaea Jacq. Enum. Syst. Pl. : 16 (1760)
Cinchona caribbeana W.Wright Philos. Trans. 67(2): 506 (1778)
Cinchona herbacea L. Mant. Pl. 2: 338 (1771)
Cinchona jamaicensis W.Wright Philos. Trans. 67: 506 (1778)
Cinchona racemosa Schrank ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 363 (1840)
Exostema caribaeum var. pubescens Borhidi & O.Muñiz Acta Bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. 18: 44 (1973)
Exostema longicuspe Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn 1852: 48 (1853)
Exostema veraensis Kitan. Fitologiya 11: 51 (1979)
Cinchona myrtifolia Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 1: 359 (1812)

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Language Common/alternative name
English caribbean princewood
ht kenkina

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Florida
  • Southern America
    • Caribbean
      • Bahamas
      • Cayman Islands
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Haiti
      • Jamaica
      • Leeward Islands
      • Puerto Rico
      • Trinidad-Tobago
      • Turks-caicos Islands
      • Windward Islands
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Costa Rica
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Western South America
      • Colombia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000966139
Florida Plant Atlas 928
USDA Plants EXCA
Tropicos 27902701
INPN 629726
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1125915-2
The Plant List kew-83532
Open Tree Of Life 840076
NCBI Taxonomy 43485
Nature Serve 2.139195
IUCN Red List 61957841
IPNI 1125915-2
iNaturalist 162923
GBIF 2911062
EPPO EXSCA
EOL 1093687

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Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Linking Anthropogenic Landscape Perturbation to Herbivory and Pathogen Leaf Damage in Tropical Tree Communities Pablo-Rodríguez JL, Bravo-Monzón ÁE, Montiel-González C, Benítez-Malvido J, Álvarez-Betancourt S, Ramírez-Sánchez O, Oyama K, Arena-Ortiz ML, Alvarez-Añorve MY, Avila-Cabadilla LD Plants (Basel) 13-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10675074
doi:10.3390/plants12223839
PMID:38005736
Plants of the Rubiaceae Family with Effect on Metabolic Syndrome: Constituents, Pharmacology, and Molecular Targets González-Castelazo F, Soria-Jasso LE, Torre-Villalvazo I, Cariño-Cortés R, Muñoz-Pérez VM, Ortiz MI, Fernández-Martínez E Plants (Basel) 15-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10610173
doi:10.3390/plants12203583
PMID:37896046
4-Phenylcoumarin (4-PC) Glucoside from Exostema caribaeum as Corrosion Inhibitor in 3% NaCl Saturated with CO2 in AISI 1018 Steel: Experimental and Theoretical Study Espinoza-Vázquez A, Rodríguez-Gómez FJ, Figueroa-Vargas IA, Pérez-Vásquez A, Mata R, Miralrio A, Galván-Martínez R, Castro M, Orozco-Cruz R Int J Mol Sci 15-Mar-2022
PMCID:PMC8948901
doi:10.3390/ijms23063130
PMID:35328550
Fruit Size and Structure of Zoochorous Trees: Identifying Drivers for the Foraging Preferences of Fruit-Eating Birds in a Mexican Successional Dry Forest Almazán-Núñez RC, Alvarez-Alvarez EA, Sierra-Morales P, Rodríguez-Godínez R Animals (Basel) 23-Nov-2021
PMCID:PMC8697955
doi:10.3390/ani11123343
PMID:34944120
Natural Products That Changed Society Christensen SB Biomedicines 26-Apr-2021
PMCID:PMC8146924
doi:10.3390/biomedicines9050472
PMID:33925870
Molecules Isolated from Mexican Hypoglycemic Plants: A Review Escandón-Rivera SM, Mata R, Andrade-Cetto A Molecules 10-Sep-2020
PMCID:PMC7571036
doi:10.3390/molecules25184145
PMID:32927754
Mitigating the Impact of Admixtures in Thai Herbal Products Urumarudappa SK, Tungphatthong C, Sukrong S Front Pharmacol 15-Oct-2019
PMCID:PMC6843083
doi:10.3389/fphar.2019.01205
PMID:31749698
Perceptions of the local beekeepers on the diversity and flowering phenology of the melliferous flora in the community of Xmabén, Hopelchén, Campeche, Mexico Coh-Martínez ME, Cetzal-Ix W, Martínez-Puc JF, Basu SK, Noguera-Savelli E, Cuevas MJ J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 08-Mar-2019
PMCID:PMC6408807
doi:10.1186/s13002-019-0296-1
PMID:30849998
Molecular Markers Associated With Chemical Analysis: A Powerful Tool for Quality Control Assessment of Copalchi Medicinal Plant Complex Cristians S, Bye R, Nieto-Sotelo J Front Pharmacol 22-Jun-2018
PMCID:PMC6024007
doi:10.3389/fphar.2018.00666
PMID:29988415
NCI Program for Natural Product Discovery: A Publicly-Accessible Library of Natural Product Fractions for High-Throughput Screening Thornburg CC, Britt JR, Evans JR, Akee RK, Whitt JA, Trinh SK, Harris MJ, Thompson JR, Ewing TL, Shipley SM, Grothaus PG, Newman DJ, Schneider JP, Grkovic T, O’Keefe BR ACS Chem Biol 13-Jun-2018
PMCID:PMC8130845
doi:10.1021/acschembio.8b00389
PMID:29812901
Secondary Metabolites from Rubiaceae Species Martins D, Nunez CV Molecules 22-Jul-2015
PMCID:PMC6331836
doi:10.3390/molecules200713422
PMID:26205062
Development of a UHPLC-PDA method for the simultaneous quantification of 4-phenylcoumarins and chlorogenic acid in Exostema caribaeum stem bark. Pérez-Vásquez A, Castillejos-Ramírez E, Cristians S, Mata R J Nat Prod 28-Mar-2014
doi:10.1021/NP400785Z
PMID:24266401
The potential of anti-malarial compounds derived from African medicinal plants, part II: a pharmacological evaluation of non-alkaloids and non-terpenoids Ntie-Kang F, Onguéné PA, Lifongo LL, Ndom JC, Sippl W, Mbaze LM Malar J 06-Mar-2014
PMCID:PMC3975711
doi:10.1186/1475-2875-13-81
PMID:24602358
Inhibitors of Urokinase Type Plasminogen Activator and Cytostatic Activity from Crude Plants Extracts Zha X, Diaz R, Franco JJ, Sanchez VF, Fasoli E, Barletta G, Carvajal A, Bansal V Molecules 26-Jul-2013
PMCID:PMC4034058
doi:10.3390/molecules18088945
PMID:23896619
Chemical studies on mexican plants used in traditional medicine, VI. Additional new 4-phenylcoumarins from Exostema caribaeum. Mata R, Calzada F, Garcia MR J Nat Prod 01-Sep-1988
doi:10.1021/NP50059A006
PMID:3204377

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Coumarins and derivatives / Coumarin glycosides
4-(3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl)-5-[(6-O-beta-D-xylopyranosyl-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)oxy]-7-methoxycoumarin 14134097 Click to see COC1=CC2=C(C(=CC(=O)O2)C3=CC(=C(C=C3)O)O)C(=C1)OC4C(C(C(C(O4)COC5C(C(C(CO5)O)O)O)O)O)O 594.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP400785Z
4-(3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl)-5-beta-D-glucopyranosyloxy-7-methoxycoumarin 13962183 Click to see 462.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50059A006
4-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-7-hydroxy-5-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-[[(2S,3R,4S,5R)-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxan-2-yl]oxymethyl]oxan-2-yl]oxychromen-2-one 162918353 Click to see 580.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP400785Z
4-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-7-methoxy-5-[(2S,3R,4S,5R,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxychromen-2-one 21676237 Click to see 462.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50059A006
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Neoflavonoids / Neoflavones
4-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-7-hydroxy-5-[(2S,3R,4S,5R)-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxan-2-yl]peroxychromen-2-one 162820131 Click to see 434.30 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP400785Z
4-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-7-methoxy-5-[(2S,3R,4S,5R)-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxan-2-yl]peroxychromen-2-one 162820127 Click to see 448.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP400785Z
5-[(2R,3R,4S,5S)-3,4-dihydroxy-5-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]peroxy-4-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-7-methoxychromen-2-one 162820129 Click to see 462.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP400785Z
5,3',4'-Trihydroxy-7-methoxy-4-phenylcoumarin 9882773 Click to see COC1=CC(=C2C(=CC(=O)OC2=C1)C3=CC(=C(C=C3)O)O)O 300.26 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50059A006

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