Blepharis edulis - Unknown
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Internal ID UUID64400d3211260304761262
Scientific name Blepharis edulis
Authority Pers.
First published in Syn. Pl. 2: 180 (1806)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Acanthodium delilii H.Buek Gen. Sp. Candoll. 3: 1 (1858)
Acanthodium spicatum Delile Descr. Egypte, Hist. Nat. : 241 (1813)
Acanthus delilei Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2: 819 (1825)
Acanthus edulis Forssk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. : 115 (1775)
Blepharis obovata Chiov. Agric. Colon. 20: 48 (1926)
Blepharis persica Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 483 (1891)
Blepharis edulis var. gracilis Maire Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afrique N. 29: 441 1938
Ruellia persica Burm.f. Fl. Indica : 135 (1768)

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Language Common/alternative name
Arabic شوك الضب المأكول
Arabic شوك الضب
Arabic زغاف
Arabic شقف
Malayalam നീരാരൽ

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- Native
  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad
      • Djibouti
      • Eritrea
      • Ethiopia
      • Somalia
      • Sudan
    • Northern Africa
      • Egypt
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Mali
      • Mauritania
      • Niger
  • Asia-temperate
    • Arabian Peninsula
      • Gulf States
      • Oman
      • Saudi Arabia
      • Yemen
    • Western Asia
      • Iran
      • Sinai

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000566615
UNII 158RVX7M8Y
Tropicos 50074823
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:46503-1
The Plant List kew-2677331
Open Tree Of Life 20098
NCBI Taxonomy 328124
IPNI 46503-1
iNaturalist 894995
GBIF 5575687
Freebase /m/0dlns6n
EOL 11887502
USDA GRIN 429065
Wikipedia Blepharis_edulis

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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
Foraging history of individual elephants using DNA metabarcoding Gill BA, Wittemyer G, Cerling TE, Musili PM, Kartzinel TR R Soc Open Sci 05-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10320352
doi:10.1098/rsos.230337
PMID:37416829
Important Medicinal and Food Taxa (Orders and Families) in Kenya, Based on Three Quantitative Approaches Mutie FM, Mbuni YM, Rono PC, Mkala EM, Nzei JM, Phumthum M, Hu GW, Wang QF Plants (Basel) 02-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10005506
doi:10.3390/plants12051145
PMID:36904005
Leucosceptosides A and B: Two Phenyl-Ethanoid Glycosides with Important Occurrence and Biological Activities Frezza C, De Vita D, Toniolo C, Sciubba F, Tomassini L, Venditti A, Bianco A, Serafini M, Foddai S Biomolecules 02-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9775335
doi:10.3390/biom12121807
PMID:36551235
The ethnomedicinal evidences pertaining to traditional medicinal herbs used in the treatment of respiratory illnesses and disorders in Saudi Arabia: A review Ghaleb Dailah H Saudi J Biol Sci 22-Jul-2022
PMCID:PMC9344334
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2022.103386
PMID:35928928
Impacts of Anthropogenic Disturbance on Vegetation Dynamics: A Case Study of Wadi Hagul, Eastern Desert, Egypt Bedair R, Ibrahim AA, Alyamani AA, Aloufi S, Ramadan S Plants (Basel) 14-Sep-2021
PMCID:PMC8466335
doi:10.3390/plants10091906
PMID:34579436
Ethnobotany of the medicinal plants used by the ethnic communities of Kerman province, Southeast Iran Hosseini SH, Bibak H, Ghara AR, Sahebkar A, Shakeri A J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 28-Apr-2021
PMCID:PMC8082778
doi:10.1186/s13002-021-00438-z
PMID:33910616
Natural plant species inventory of hotspot areas in Arabian Peninsula: Southwest Al-Baha region, Saudi Arabia Al-Namazi AA, Al-Khulaidi AW, Algarni S, Al-Sagheer NA Saudi J Biol Sci 04-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8176062
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.02.076
PMID:34121869
Ethnopharmacological study of native medicinal plants and the impact of pastoralism on their loss in arid to semiarid ecosystems of southeastern Iran Sharafatmandrad M, Khosravi Mashizi A Sci Rep 23-Sep-2020
PMCID:PMC7511295
doi:10.1038/s41598-020-72536-z
PMID:32968162
Ecological significance of floristic composition and life forms of Riyadh region, Central Saudi Arabia Al Shaye NA, Masrahi YS, Thomas J Saudi J Biol Sci 17-Apr-2019
PMCID:PMC6933222
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2019.04.009
PMID:31889814
Blepharis saudensis (Acanthaceae), a new species from Saudi Arabia Basahi MA, Masrahi YS Saudi J Biol Sci 07-Jan-2019
PMCID:PMC6864371
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2019.01.002
PMID:31762618
Integrating morphological characters, molecular markers, and distribution patterns to assess the identity of Blepharis species from Jordan Muhaidat R, Brake MH, Al Zoubi M, Colautti RI, Al-Nasser A, Awawdeh M, Al-Batayneh K, Al Khateeb W, McKown AD, Lahham J, El-Oqlah A Bot Stud 25-Jul-2018
PMCID:PMC6060189
doi:10.1186/s40529-018-0234-x
PMID:30046932
ChemInform Abstract: Studies on Acanthaceae:Benzoxazine Glucoside and Benzoxazolone from Blepharis edulis Pers. A. CHATTERJEE, N. J. SHARMA, J. BANERJI, S. C. BASA Wiley 26-May-2016
doi:10.1002/CHIN.199021307
Carctol: Profit before Patients? Ernst E Breast Care (Basel) 20-Feb-2009
PMCID:PMC2942009
doi:10.1159/000193025
PMID:20877681

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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
(2S)-2-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxy-4H-1,4-benzoxazin-3-one 101615954 Click to see C1=CC=C2C(=C1)NC(=O)C(O2)OC3C(C(C(C(O3)CO)O)O)O 327.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1002/CHIN.199021307
Blepharin 14605136 Click to see C1=CC=C2C(=C1)NC(=O)C(O2)OC3C(C(C(C(O3)CO)O)O)O 327.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1002/CHIN.199021307
> Organoheterocyclic compounds / Benzoxazoles / Benzoxazolones
2-Benzoxazolinone 6043 Click to see C1=CC=C2C(=C1)NC(=O)O2 135.12 unknown https://doi.org/10.1002/CHIN.199021307

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