Lonchocarpus

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Lonchocarpus

a genus of plants of the family Leguminosae. They are trees, climbing shrubs, or woody lianas. The leaves are alternate and odd-pinnate, and the flowers are violet, purple, or white, growing in racemes or panicles. There are as many as 150 species in the tropics of America, Africa, and Australia. Some species yield valuable wood. A blue dye is obtained from the leaves and young sprouts of L. cyanescens (from tropical West Africa). The roots of L. utilis and L. urucu, which grow in South America, are used to obtain a poison that is used as an insecticide.

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Dihydrospinochalcone-A (1) and isocordoin (2), chalcone-type compounds, were isolated from hexanic extract of Lonchocarpus xuul as previously described (Escalante-Erosa et al.

Antihypertensive and vasorelaxant effects of dihydrospinochalcone-a isolated from Lonchocarpus xuul lundell by no production: Computational and ex vivo approaches

The sample was believed to be extracted from the Amazonian native species of Lonchocarpus nicou and Lonchocarpus urucu dried roots.

Bio-active constituents of rotenoids resin extracted from Derris elliptica roots: comparison between local plant extract and SAPHYR (France) cube resin

Ctenocolum crotonae Lonchocarpus (Fahraeus) muehlbergianus Hassler Acanthoscelides sp.

New host, Host plants, and distribution records for Horismenus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) species in a bruchid beetle parasitoid guild attacking wild type Phaseolus coccineus and P. vulgaris in Central Mexico

the Fabaceae genera Ormosia, Lonchocarpus, and Dioclea or the tribes Cassieae and Caesalpinieae in the Caesalpiniaceae.

Survey of Leguminosae - a study in adaptive radiation

This spray or dust, extracted from roots of tropical legumes such as Derris, Lonchocarpus, and Tephrosia, controls chewing insects, including beetles, weevils, loopers, thrips, and flies.

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They occur naturally as constituents of the roots, stems, and leaves of many leguminous species of the genera Derris, Lonchocarpus, Tephrosia and Amorpha.

A preliminary study of rotenone exhaustive extraction kinetic from Derris elliptica dried roots using normal soaking extraction (NSE) method

In contrast, in Chamela Bay where the infratropical thermotype begins, deciduous forests were dominated by leguminous trees of the genus Lonchocarpus (12 species; Lott, 1993) rather than L.

Bioclimate-vegetation interrelations in northwestern Mexico

Lonchocarpus cultratus Faba An Sin 1,9 1,3 4,24 7,40 (Vell.

Floristic composition and phytosociological structure in a submontane ombrophilous dense forest at Sao Bento river dam, Sideropolis, Santa Catarina State/Floristica e estrutura fitossociologica em floresta ombrofila densa submontana na barragem do rio Sao Bento, Sideropolis, Estado de Santa Catarina