Biophytum

Biophytum
Biophytum sensitivum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Oxalidales
Family:	Oxalidaceae
Genus:	Biophytum

Biophytum reinwardtii in Kerala, India

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 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

References

1. "2. Biophytum Candolle". Flora of China.
2. 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
3. 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
4. Lourteig, Alicia (1981), "Biophytum umbraculum (Oxalidaceae)", Brittonia (New York Botanical Garden Press) 33 (3): 451, doi:10.2307/2806436, JSTOR 2806436
5. 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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