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Parmentiera aculeata

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Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
Common Names
Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
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Distribution
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Internal ID UUID6440274f6e095301739876
Scientific name Parmentiera aculeata
Authority (Kunth) Seem.
First published in Bot. Voy. Herald : 183 (1854)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Parmentiera edulis DC. Biblioth. Universelle Genève , n.s., 17: 135 (1838)
Parmentiera foliolosa Miers Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 166 (1868)
Crescentia aculeata Kunth Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 3: 158 (1818 publ. 1819)
Crescentia edulis Desv. J. Bot. Agric. 4: 113 (1814)
Crescentia musaecarpa Zaldivar ex C.Heller Reisen in Mexico 414.
Parmentiera lanceolata Miers Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 167 (1868)
Crescentia edulis Sessé & Moc. Naturaleza (Mexico City) , ser. 2, 1(App.): 95 (1889)
Crescentia musicarpa Zaldivar ex C.Heller Reis. Mexico 414 (1853)

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Language Common/alternative name
English cuachilote
Spanish parmentiera edulis
German parmentiera edulis
Chinese 食用蜡烛木
Chinese 食用蜡烛树

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
  • Southern America
    • Caribbean
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Haiti
      • Jamaica
      • Puerto Rico
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Costa Rica
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000779463
UNII 4G794G0OJR
USDA Plants PAAC13
Tropicos 3700631
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:110241-1
The Plant List kew-318041
Open Tree Of Life 3885569
NCBI Taxonomy 1971483
IUCN Red List 144264625
IPNI 110241-1
iNaturalist 209957
GBIF 5415087
EPPO PAFAC
EOL 484980
USDA GRIN 105032
Wikipedia Parmentiera_aculeata

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Scientific Literature Top

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Antioxidants in Traditional Mexican Medicine and Their Applications as Antitumor Treatments Soto KM, Pérez Bueno JD, Mendoza López ML, Apátiga-Castro M, López-Romero JM, Mendoza S, Manzano-Ramírez A Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 23-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10145960
doi:10.3390/ph16040482
PMID:37111239
Mangosteen Metabolites as Promising Alpha-Amylase Inhibitor Candidates: In Silico and In Vitro Evaluations Omar AM, AlKharboush DF, Mohammad KA, Mohamed GA, Abdallah HM, Ibrahim SR Metabolites 07-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9784833
doi:10.3390/metabo12121229
PMID:36557267
How does urbanization affect perceptions and traditional knowledge of medicinal plants? Arjona-García C, Blancas J, Beltrán-Rodríguez L, López Binnqüist C, Colín Bahena H, Moreno-Calles AI, Sierra-Huelsz JA, López-Medellín X J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 03-Aug-2021
PMCID:PMC8330055
doi:10.1186/s13002-021-00473-w
PMID:34344391
Traditional Herbal Medicine in Mesoamerica: Toward Its Evidence Base for Improving Universal Health Coverage Geck MS, Cristians S, Berger-González M, Casu L, Heinrich M, Leonti M Front Pharmacol 31-Jul-2020
PMCID:PMC7411306
doi:10.3389/fphar.2020.01160
PMID:32848768
Exchange of medicinal plant information in California missions McBride JR, Cavero RY, Cheshire AL, Calvo MI, McBride DL J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 15-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7296748
doi:10.1186/s13002-020-00388-y
PMID:32539795
An Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants Used in Papantla, Veracruz, Mexico Lara Reimers EA, C. EF, Lara Reimers DJ, Chaloupkova P, Zepeda del Valle JM, Milella L, Russo D Plants (Basel) 24-Jul-2019
PMCID:PMC6724097
doi:10.3390/plants8080246
PMID:31344952
Comparison of taxon‐specific versus general locus sets for targeted sequence capture in plant phylogenomics Chau JH, Rahfeldt WA, Olmstead RG Appl Plant Sci 31-Mar-2018
PMCID:PMC5895190
doi:10.1002/aps3.1032
PMID:29732262
Histochemistry and immunolocalisation of glucokinin in antidiabetic plants used in traditional Mexican medicine Laguna-Hernandez G, Rio-Zamorano CA, Meneses-Ochoa IG, Brechu-Franco AE Eur J Histochem 21-Jun-2017
PMCID:PMC5484011
doi:10.4081/ejh.2017.2782
PMID:28735523
Medicinal Plants from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Used as Immunostimulants Alonso-Castro AJ, Juárez-Vázquez MD, Campos-Xolalpa N Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 03-Mar-2016
PMCID:PMC4794563
doi:10.1155/2016/4017676
PMID:27042188
Plant management and biodiversity conservation in Náhuatl homegardens of the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico Larios C, Casas A, Vallejo M, Moreno-Calles AI, Blancas J J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 06-Nov-2013
PMCID:PMC3827996
doi:10.1186/1746-4269-9-74
PMID:24195962
The evolution of bat pollination: a phylogenetic perspective Fleming TH, Geiselman C, Kress WJ Ann Bot 29-Sep-2009
PMCID:PMC2766192
doi:10.1093/aob/mcp197
PMID:19789175
Hypoglycemic effects of lactucin-8-O-methylacrylate of Parmentiera edulis fruit. Perez RM, Perez C, Zavala MA, Perez S, Hernandez H, Lagunes F J Ethnopharmacol 01-Aug-2000
doi:10.1016/S0378-8741(99)00212-3
PMID:10940575

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
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[(3aR,4S,9aS,9bR)-9-(hydroxymethyl)-6-methyl-3-methylidene-2,7-dioxo-4,5,9a,9b-tetrahydro-3aH-azuleno[4,5-b]furan-4-yl] 2-methylprop-2-enoate 14355804 Click to see 344.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-8741(99)00212-3

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