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Internal ID UUID643ffeef42b78341644012
Scientific name Turnera subulata
Authority Sm.
First published in Cycl. 36: n.º 2 (1817)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Turnera sericea Kunth Nov. Gen. Sp. 6: 127 (1823)
Turnera elegans Otto Horae Phys. Berol. : 36 (1820)
Turnera ulmifolia var. elegans (Otto) Urb. Jahrb. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 2: 139 (1883)
Turnera peruviana Willd. Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis [Roemer & Schultes] 6: 679. 1820 [Aug-Dec 1820]
Turnera trioniflora Sims Bot. Mag. 47: t. 2106 (1819)
Turnera mollis Kunth Nov. Gen. Sp. 6: 126 (1823)

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Language Common/alternative name
English white alder
English politician's flower
English white butter cup
Arabic زداع فرعي
Esperanto turnero
Russian Тёрнера шиловидная
Thai บานเช้า
Chinese 白时钟花

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- Extinct
- Introduced
- Native
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • India
      • Maldives
      • Sri Lanka
    • Indo-China
      • Thailand
    • Malesia
      • Jawa
      • Malaya
      • Sumatera
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil South
      • Brazil Southeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Caribbean
      • Netherlands Antilles
      • Trinidad-Tobago
      • Windward Islands
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
      • Suriname
      • Venezuela
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000457711
Florida Plant Atlas 4371
Tropicos 33100001
INPN 630848
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:836689-1
The Plant List kew-2518588
Open Tree Of Life 715819
NCBI Taxonomy 218843
IPNI 836689-1
iNaturalist 327909
GBIF 4161154
Freebase /m/0vpvccm
EOL 5743667
USDA GRIN 317940
Wikipedia Turnera_subulata
Plantarium 111203

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_028386065.3 ASM2838606v3 Scaffold Washington State University 2023-02-01 110 519.36 Mb

Scientific Literature Top

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
Bioactivity of the Genus Turnera: A Review of the Last 10 Years Parra-Naranjo A, Delgado-Montemayor C, Salazar-Aranda R, Waksman-Minsky N Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 07-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10675026
doi:10.3390/ph16111573
PMID:38004438
Special Issue—“Isolation, Structure Elucidation and Biological Activity of Natural Products” Takahashi JA Molecules 14-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10383114
doi:10.3390/molecules28145392
PMID:37513264
Do carbon stocks and floristic diversity of tropical homegardens vary along an elevational gradient and based on holding size in central Kerala, India? Kumar BM Agrofor Syst 07-Apr-2023
PMCID:PMC10081327
doi:10.1007/s10457-023-00821-7
PMID:37193256
LC-MS Analysis and Antifungal Activity of Turnera subulata Sm. Andrade-Pinheiro JC, Sobral de Souza CE, Ribeiro DA, Silva AD, da Silva VB, dos Santos AT, Juno Alencar Fonseca V, de Macêdo DG, da Cruz RP, Almeida-Bezerra JW, Machado AJ, de Freitas TS, de Brito ES, Ribeiro PR, da Costa JG, Coutinho HD, Kowalska G, Rowiński R, Kowalski R, Morais-Braga MF Plants (Basel) 16-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9862381
doi:10.3390/plants12020415
PMID:36679128
Annotation of the Turnera subulata (Passifloraceae) Draft Genome Reveals the S-Locus Evolved after the Divergence of Turneroideae from Passifloroideae in a Stepwise Manner Henning PM, Roalson EH, Mir W, McCubbin AG, Shore JS Plants (Basel) 07-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9862265
doi:10.3390/plants12020286
PMID:36679000
Comparative transcriptomics reveals commonalities and differences in the genetic underpinnings of a floral dimorphism Potente G, Stubbs RL, Yousefi N, Pirovano W, Szövényi P, Conti E Sci Rep 01-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9715534
doi:10.1038/s41598-022-25132-2
PMID:36456708
The S-Gene YUC6 Pleiotropically Determines Male Mating Type and Pollen Size in Heterostylous Turnera (Passifloraceae): A Novel Neofunctionalization of the YUCCA Gene Family Henning PM, Shore JS, McCubbin AG Plants (Basel) 08-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9572539
doi:10.3390/plants11192640
PMID:36235506
Functional Ecology of External Secretory Structures in Rivea ornata (Roxb.) Choisy (Convolvulaceae) Chitchak N, Stewart AB, Traiperm P Plants (Basel) 08-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9370475
doi:10.3390/plants11152068
PMID:35956546
Chemical Characterization of Flowers and Leaf Extracts Obtained from Turnera subulata and Their Immunomodulatory Effect on LPS-Activated RAW 264.7 Macrophages da Luz JR, Barbosa EA, do Nascimento TE, de Rezende AA, Ururahy MA, Brito AD, Araujo-Silva G, López JA, Almeida MD Molecules 06-Feb-2022
PMCID:PMC8839466
doi:10.3390/molecules27031084
PMID:35164352
Local Knowledge and Use of Medicinal Plants in a Rural Community in the Agreste of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil da Costa Ferreira E, Anselmo MD, Guerra NM, Marques de Lucena C, Felix CD, Bussmann RW, Paniagua-Zambrana NY, Paiva de Lucena RF Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 29-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8731275
doi:10.1155/2021/9944357
PMID:35003314
Temporal assessment of the medicinal plants trade in public markets of the state of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil da Costa Ferreira E, de Lucena RF, Bussmann RW, Paniagua-Zambrana NY, da Cruz DD J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 19-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8684639
doi:10.1186/s13002-021-00496-3
PMID:34924006
Looking into the flora of Dutch Brazil: botanical identifications of seventeenth century plant illustrations in the Libri Picturati Alcàntara-Rodríguez M, Françozo M, Van Andel T Sci Rep 05-Oct-2021
PMCID:PMC8492696
doi:10.1038/s41598-021-99226-8
PMID:34611224
Estrogenic Plants: to Prevent Neurodegeneration and Memory Loss and Other Symptoms in Women After Menopause Echeverria V, Echeverria F, Barreto GE, Echeverría J, Mendoza C Front Pharmacol 20-May-2021
PMCID:PMC8172769
doi:10.3389/fphar.2021.644103
PMID:34093183
Plant species with the trait of continuous flowering do not hold core roles in a Neotropical lowland plant‐pollinating insect network Hinton CR, Peters VE Ecol Evol 10-Feb-2021
PMCID:PMC7920781
doi:10.1002/ece3.7203
PMID:33717460
The Turnera Style S-Locus Gene TsBAHD Possesses Brassinosteroid-Inactivating Activity When Expressed in Arabidopsis thaliana Matzke CM, Shore JS, Neff MM, McCubbin AG Plants (Basel) 13-Nov-2020
PMCID:PMC7697239
doi:10.3390/plants9111566
PMID:33202834

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