Flaveria chlorifolia

Flaveria chlorifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Flaveria
Species: F. chlorifolia
Binomial name
Flaveria chlorifolia
A.Gray
Synonyms[1]
  • Flaveria chloraefolia A.Gray

Flaveria chlorifolia, the clasping yellowtops, is a North American plant species of yellowtops within the sunflower family. It is native to the southwestern United States (New Mexico, western Texas)[2] and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León).[3][4]

Flaveria chlorifolia is a perennial herb up to 200 cm (80 inches or 6 2/3 feet) tall. One plant can sometimes produce 150 or more flower heads in a branching array, each head with 9-14 yellow disc flowers but no ray flowers.[4][5]

Chemical composition

Quercetin-3-sulfate 3'-sulfotransferase is an enzyme that uses 3'-phosphoadenylyl sulfate and quercetin 3-sulfate to produce adenosine 3',5'-bisphosphate and quercetin 3,3'-bissulfate. The enzyme can be found in F. chlorifolia.[6]

Ombuin 3-sulfate, the sulfate conjugate of ombuin, can be isolated from F. chlorifolia.[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.tropicos.org/Name/2702503
  2. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  3. ↑ SEINet, Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter
  4. 1 2 Flora of North America, Flaveria chlorifolia A. Gray, 1849. Clasping yellowtops
  5. ↑ Powell, Albert Michael. 1979. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 65(2): 611-613 description and commentary in English, distribution map on page 608
  6. ↑ Varin L and Ibrahim RK (1989). "Partial purification and characterization of 3 flavonol-specific sulfotransferases from Flaveria chloraefolia". Plant Physiol. 90 (3): 977–981. doi:10.1104/pp.90.3.977. PMC 1061831. PMID 16666908.
  7. ↑ Ombuin 3-sulphate from Flaveria chloraefolia. Denis Barron and Ragai K. Ibrahim, Phytochemistry, Volume 27, Issue 7, 1988, pages 2362-2363, doi:10.1016/0031-9422(88)80166-3

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