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- Strychnos_usambarensis abstract "Strychnos usambarensis is a shrub or small tree up to 15m tall or a 70m long liane of Sub-Saharan Africa, occurring in forest and woodland, mountain ravines and coastal bush, often on rocky slopes and named for the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. The species is found from Guinea east to Nigeria, from Congo east to Kenya and south to kloofs of the Magaliesberg of South Africa. Bantu tribes from Rwanda and Tanzania produce an arrow poison from the root bark and leaves of this species, sometimes combining it with extracts from other plants. (see Toxalbumin)The leaves are opposite, held in a horizontal plane, ovate to elliptic in shape with a characteristic drip-tip, and glossy dark green above. Flowers are small, in axillary clusters, whitish to yellowish-green, and fragrant. Fruits are soft-shelled and small, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, yellow when ripe, tapering to a collar at peduncle.Strychnos usambarensis has been thoroughly investigated for potential pharmacological drugs and some 60 indole alkaloids have been isolated, mostly dimeric terpenoid in structure. Root bark holds tertiary alkaloids and several quaternary alkaloids and some anhydronium bases. Among these are the retuline class alkaloids C-dihydrotoxiferine, C-curarine and C-calebassine and the monomeric C-fluorocurarine, which are also the active principles of calabash curare obtained from South American Strychnos spp. The use of curare alkaloids reduces the risks of anaesthesia, as smaller amounts of anaesthetic are needed to achieve the same effect. S. usambarensis root bark also holds the less active afrocurarine, the monomeric tetracyclic alkaloid akagerine, the non-terpenoid alkaloids harmane and melinonine F and the monoquaternary alkaloids malindine and isomalindine, which belong to the group of trinitrogenated alkaloids. Four root alkaloids, the dimeric usambarensines, are of the corynanthine class. Several of the alkaloids in S. usambarensis have promising anticancer or antimalarial properties, justifying further research.The genus Strychnos is represented by some 300 species, fairly evenly divided among Asia, America, and Africa.".
- Strychnos_usambarensis binomialAuthority Ernest_Friedrich_Gilg.
- Strychnos_usambarensis class Eudicots.
- Strychnos_usambarensis division Flowering_plant.
- Strychnos_usambarensis family Loganiaceae.
- Strychnos_usambarensis genus Strychnos.
- Strychnos_usambarensis kingdom Plant.
- Strychnos_usambarensis order Asterids.
- Strychnos_usambarensis order Gentianales.
- Strychnos_usambarensis synonym "Strychnos micansS.Moore".
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageExternalLink Strychnos-usambarensis-Karura-Forest-25-APR-2004-DSCN1295-.JPG.
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- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageRevisionID "653761973".
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Adolf_Engler.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Alkaloid.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Alkaloids.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Angiosperms.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Asterids.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Category:Strychnos.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Congo_(area).
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Congo_Basin.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Corynanthine.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Curare.
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- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Ernest_Friedrich_Gilg.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Eudicots.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Flowering_plant.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Gentianales.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Guinea.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Harmane.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Indole.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Kenya.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Southern_African_indigenous_trees_and_woody_lianes.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Loganiaceae.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Magaliesberg.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Nigeria.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Plant.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Plantae.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Rwanda.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink S.Moore.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink South_Africa.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Spencer_Le_Marchant_Moore.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Strychnos.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Sub-Saharan_Africa.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Tanzania.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Toxalbumin.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Tubocurarine_chloride.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLink Usambara_Mountains.
- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageWikiLinkText "Strychnos usambarensis".
- Strychnos_usambarensis binomial "Strychnos usambarensis".
- Strychnos_usambarensis binomialAuthority "Gilg ex Engl.".
- Strychnos_usambarensis familia Loganiaceae.
- Strychnos_usambarensis genus "Strychnos".
- Strychnos_usambarensis hasPhotoCollection Strychnos_usambarensis.
- Strychnos_usambarensis ordo Gentianales.
- Strychnos_usambarensis regnum Plant.
- Strychnos_usambarensis regnum Plantae.
- Strychnos_usambarensis species "S. usambarensis".
- Strychnos_usambarensis synonyms "Strychnos micans S.Moore".
- Strychnos_usambarensis unrankedClassis Eudicots.
- Strychnos_usambarensis unrankedDivisio Angiosperms.
- Strychnos_usambarensis unrankedDivisio Flowering_plant.
- Strychnos_usambarensis unrankedOrdo Asterids.
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- Strychnos_usambarensis wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Taxobox.
- Strychnos_usambarensis subject Category:Strychnos.
- Strychnos_usambarensis hypernym Shrub.
- Strychnos_usambarensis type Eukaryote.
- Strychnos_usambarensis type Plant.
- Strychnos_usambarensis type Species.
- Strychnos_usambarensis type Thing.
- Strychnos_usambarensis type Q19088.
- Strychnos_usambarensis type Q756.
- Strychnos_usambarensis comment "Strychnos usambarensis is a shrub or small tree up to 15m tall or a 70m long liane of Sub-Saharan Africa, occurring in forest and woodland, mountain ravines and coastal bush, often on rocky slopes and named for the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. The species is found from Guinea east to Nigeria, from Congo east to Kenya and south to kloofs of the Magaliesberg of South Africa.".
- Strychnos_usambarensis label "Strychnos usambarensis".
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- Strychnos_usambarensis wasDerivedFrom Strychnos_usambarensis?oldid=653761973.
- Strychnos_usambarensis isPrimaryTopicOf Strychnos_usambarensis.