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Biophytum
| Biophytum | |
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| Biophytum sensitivum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Oxalidales |
| Family: | Oxalidaceae |
| Genus: | Biophytum DC. |
Biophytum is a genus of about 50 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the family Oxalidaceae. It is found in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide.[1] The annual Biophytum sensitivum is a traditional medicine in Nepal.[2][3] Biophytum petersianum (also known as Biophytum umbraculum[4]) is a medicinal plant in Mali.[5]
Species include:
- Biophytum abyssinicum – Steud ex A.Rich.
- Biophytum adiantoides – Wight ex Edgew. & Hook.f.
- Biophytum aeschynomenifolia – Guillaumin
- Biophytum albiflorum – F.Muell.
- Biophytum albizzioides – Guillaumin
- Biophytum amazonicum – R.Knuth
- Biophytum antioquiense – Knuth
- Biophytum apodiscias – Edgew. & Hook.f.
- Biophytum bequaertii – De Wild.
- Biophytum bogoroense – De Wild.
- Biophytum bolivianum – R.Knuth
- Biophytum boussingaultii – Klotzsch ex R.Knuth
- Biophytum calophyllum – Guillaumin
- Biophytum candolleanum – Wight
- Biophytum cardonaei – Pittier
- Biophytum casiquiarense – Knuth
- Biophytum castum – R.Knuth
- Biophytum chocoense – Knuth
- Biophytum columbianum – Knuth
- Biophytum commersonii – Guillaumin
- Biophytum congestiflorum – Govind.
- Biophytum cowanii – T.Wendt
- Biophytum crassipes – Engl.
- Biophytum cumingianum – Edgew. & Hook.f.
- Biophytum cumingii – Klotzsch
- Biophytum dendroides – DC.
- Biophytum dormiens – Knuth
- Biophytum dusenii – Engl. ex R.Knuth
- Biophytum esquirolii – H.Lév.
- Biophytum falcifolium – Lourteig
- Biophytum ferrugineum – Rusby
- Biophytum forsythii – R.Knuth
- Biophytum foxii – Sprague
- Biophytum fruticosum – Blume
- Biophytum fruticosum var. papuanum – Veldkamp
- Biophytum globuliflorum – R.Knuth
- Biophytum gracile – R.Knuth
- Biophytum heinrichsae – R.Knuth
- Biophytum helenae – Buscal. & Muschl.
- Biophytum hermanni – Veldkamp
- Biophytum hildebrandtii – Guillaumin
- Biophytum homblei – De Wild.
- Biophytum huilense – Killip & Cuatrec.
- Biophytum incrassatum – Delhaye
- Biophytum insigne – Gamble
- Biophytum intermedium – Wight
- Biophytum jessenii – Knuth
- Biophytum juninense – R.Knuth
- Biophytum kaessneri – R.Knuth
- Biophytum kamerunense – Engl. & R.Knuth ex Engl.
- Biophytum kayae – Aymard & P.E.Berry
- Biophytum lindsaeifolium – Knuth
- Biophytum longibracteatum – Tadulingam & Cheriyan Jacob
- Biophytum longipedunculatum – Govind.
- Biophytum lourteigiae – Aymard & P.E.Berry
- Biophytum luetzelburgii – Suess.
- Biophytum macrorrhizum – R.E.Fr.
- Biophytum madurense – R.Knuth
- Biophytum mapirense – R.Knuth
- Biophytum microphyllum – Veldkamp
- Biophytum mimosoides – (A.St.-Hil.) Guillaumin
- Biophytum molle – Guillaumin
- Biophytum mucronatum – Lourteig
- Biophytum mutisii – R.Knuth
- Biophytum myriophyllum – R.Knuth
- Biophytum nervifolium – Thwaites
- Biophytum nudum – Edgew. & Hook.f.
- Biophytum nyikense – Exell
- Biophytum ottohuberi – Aymard & P.E.Berry
- Biophytum panamense – Lourteig
- Biophytum passargei – Knuth
- Biophytum pedicellatum – Delhaye
- Biophytum permultijugum – Suess.
- Biophytum perrieri – Guillaumin
- Biophytum peruvianum – R.Knuth
- Biophytum petersianum – Klotzsch
- Biophytum polyphyllum – Munro
- Biophytum poterioides – Edgew. ex Hook.f.
- Biophytum proliferum – Edgew. & Hook.f.
- Biophytum renifolium – Delhaye.
- Biophytum reinwardtii- kerala india
- Biophytum richardsae – Exell
- Biophytum ringoetii – De Wild.
- Biophytum rotundifolium – Delhaye
- Biophytum santanderense – R.Knuth
- Biophytum sensitivum – (L.) DC.
- Biophytum sesbanioides – Edgew. ex Hook.f.
- Biophytum sessile – Wall.
- Biophytum somnians – G.Don
- Biophytum soukupii – Lourteig
- Biophytum talbotii – R.Knuth
- Biophytum tessmannii – R.Knuth
- Biophytum thorelianum – Guillaumin
- Biophytum turianiense – Kabuye
- Biophytum umbraculum – Welw.
- Biophytum uzungwaensis – Frim.-Moll.
- Biophytum veldkampii – A.E.S.Khan, E.S.S.Kumar, S.Binu & Pushp.
- Biophytum verticillatum – Wight
- Biophytum zenkeri – Guillaumin
- Biophytum zunigae – C.Nelson
- ^ "2. Biophytum Candolle". Flora of China.
- ^ Guruvayoorappan, C; Kuttan, G (Mar 2008), "Biophytum sensitivum (L.) DC inhibits tumor cell invasion and metastasis through a mechanism involving regulation of MMPs, prolyl hydroxylase, lysyl oxidase, nm23, ERK-1, ERK-2, STAT-1, and proinflammatory cytokine gene expression in metastatic lung tissue", Integrative Cancer Therapies, 7 (1): 42–50, doi:10.1177/1534735407313744, PMID 18292594
- ^ Puri, D (Nov 2001), "The insulinotropic activity of a Nepalese medicinal plant Biophytum sensitivum: preliminary experimental study", Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 78 (1): 89–93, doi:10.1016/S0378-8741(01)00306-3, ISSN 0378-8741, PMID 11585694
- ^ Lourteig, Alicia (1981), "Biophytum umbraculum (Oxalidaceae)", Brittonia, 33 (3): 451–452, Bibcode:1981Britt..33..451L, doi:10.2307/2806436, JSTOR 2806436
- ^ Inngjerdingen, M; Inngjerdingen, Kt; Patel, Tr; Allen, S; Chen, X; Rolstad, B; Morris, Ga; Harding, Se; Michaelsen, Te; Diallo, D; Paulsen, Bs (Dec 2008), "Pectic polysaccharides from Biophytum petersianum Klotzsch, and their activation of macrophages and dendritic cells", Glycobiology, 18 (12): 1074–84, doi:10.1093/glycob/cwn090, PMID 18809620
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