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Tree and tree-like species of Mexico: Apocynaceae, Cactaceae, Ebenaceae, Fagaceae, and Sapotaceae

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2016
Trees or tree-like plants are defined here broadly as perennial, self-supporting plants with a total height of at least 5 m, without considering ascending leaves or inflorescences, and with 1 or several erect stems with a diameter of at least 10 cm.
Martin Ricker, Susana Valencia-Avalos, Héctor M. Hernández, Carlos Gómez-Hinostrosa, Esteban M. Martínez-Salas, Leonardo O. Alvarado-Cárdenas, Bruno Wallnöfer, Clara H. Ramos, Pilar E. Mendoza   +8 more
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Measurement of Ungulate Palatability and Browsing Pressure on Japanese Flora

Ecological Research, Volume 41, Issue 1, January 2026.
Estimation of palatability and browsing pressure are key techniques for ecosystem management. We compared four methods to estimate palatability based on browsing scar survey and proposed the reference palatability values for the Japanese flora as plant ecological trait.
Fumito Koike, Masayo Isozaki
wiley   +1 more source

Biological aspects of Periga circumstans Walker, 1855 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Hemileucinae) with larvae reared on khaki and mate-plant leaves

Brazilian Journal of Biology
The goal of the present study was to investigate biological aspects of Periga circumstans Walker, 1855 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Hemileucinae) whose larvae were fed on leaves of khaki-plant (Diospyros khaki Linnaeus - Ebenaceae) and Mate-plant (Ilex ...
A. Specht, LM. Lorini, E. Fronza, G. Poletto   +3 more
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Phytoconstituents with Radical Scavenging and Cytotoxic Activities from Diospyros shimbaensis

Diseases, 2016
As part of our search for natural products having antioxidant and anticancer properties, the phytochemical investigation of Diospyros shimbaensis (Ebenaceae), a plant belonging to a genus widely used in East African traditional medicine, was carried out.
Per Aronsson, Joan J. E. Munissi, Amra Gruhonjic, Paul A. Fitzpatrick, Göran Landberg, Stephen S. Nyandoro, Mate Erdelyi   +6 more
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A taxonomic revision of the continental African material previously included in Diospyros ferrea (Ebenaceae) [PDF]

Plant Ecology and Evolution
Background and aims – As currently circumscribed, Diospyros ferrea represents one of the most geographically widespread species in the genus and had previously been described as an ochlospecies because of its particularly challenging morphological ...
Edgard Mestre Serra, Carmen Puglisi, Alexander G. Linan, Nattanon Meeprom, Hasina N. Rakouth, Heidi H. Schmidt, Porter P. Lowry II   +6 more
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The complete plastome sequence of Diospyros blancoi A. DC. (Ebenaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 2016
The plastome sequences of Diospyros blancoi A. DC. (Ebenaceae) were completed in this study (NCBI acc. no. KX426216). The gene order and structure of the D. blancoi plastome are collinear with the typical plastome of land plants. The complete plastome size is 157,745 bp in length and consists of a large single-copy region of 87,246 bp and a small ...
Jo, Sangjin, Kim, Hoe-Won, Kim, Young-Kee, Cheon, Se-Hwan, Kim, Ki-Joong   +4 more
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Neuropharmacological and antibacterial effects of the ethyl acetate extract of Diospyros malabarica (Ebenaceae) seeds

Clinical Phytoscience, 2018
Background Diospyros malabarica is a well known flowering plant indigenous to Indian subcontinent which is used in folklore medicine for several purposes.
Tusnova Sharmin, Razia Sultana, Farzana Hossain, Shahriar Kabir Shakil, Foysal Hossen, Md. Mamun Or Rashid   +5 more
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THE DIOSPYROS SALICIFOLIA COMPLEX (EBENACEAE) IN MESOAMERICA

, 2008
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Provance, Mitchell C, Ruiz, Ignacio García, Sanders, Andrew C.   +2 more
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Nomenclatural notes on MalagasyDiospyrosL. (Ebenaceae)

Adansonia, 2011
ABSTRACT Generic evaluation of Diospyros L. (Ebenaceae) for the Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar project necessitates the following nomenclatural actions: 12 new combinations are proposed for species originally described in Maba J.R.Forst. & G.Forst, or Tetraclis Hiern; two new combinations are proposed for species originally described in
Schatz, George E., Lowry Ii, Porter P.
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Comparative investigation of the free radical scavenging potential and anticancer property of Diospyros blancoi (Ebenaceae)

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2016
Objective: To investigate the comparative effects of Diospyros blancoi (Ebenaceae) leaves (DBL), root bark (DBRB) and stem bark (DBSB) on free radicals and cancer.
Muhammad Ali Khan, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Md. Nazmul Sardar, Md. Saiful Islam Arman, Md. Badrul Islam, Md. Jahangir Alam Khandakar, Mamunur Rashid, Golam Sadik, AHM Khurshid Alam   +8 more
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