Asystasia (Acanthaceae) in Malaysia

Plasma Fractionation in Malaysia

Wood Anatomy of Acanthaceae: A Survey

ABSTRACf Qualitative and quantitative wood features are reported for 38 species representing 22 genera, including the scandent genera Mendoncia and Thunbergia. Woods of Acanthaceae are characterized by relatively narrow vessels with simple perforation plates and alternate lateral wall pitting, septate libriform fibers, scanty vasicentric axial parenchyma, rays both multiseriate and uniseriate, ...

Additional Chromosome Numbers of American Acanthaceae

Original meiotic chromosome counts are presented for 39 species in 15 genera of Acanthaceae from Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, the United States, and Venezuela. These reports include the first counts for 20 species representing 10 genera of the family, including the first chromosome number documented for the genus Poikilacanthus. Counts for 15 species confirm numbers previously r...

Aliphatic alcohol and iridoid glycosides from Asystasia intrusa.

An aliphatic alcohol glycoside (asystoside) and an iridoid diglucoside (3'-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-catalpol) were isolated from the aerial part of Asystasia intrusa along with benzyl beta-D-glucopyranoside, zizybeoside I, (6S,9R)-roseoside, verbascoside, ehrenoside, 6beta-hydroxyantirrhide, angeloside, catalpol, ajugol, 6-deoxycatalpol, and scutellarioside II. The structural elucidations were b...

Phlogacanthus yangtsekiangensis, a new combination in Chinese Acanthaceae

The genus Cystacanthus was established by Anderson (1867: 457) and placed in tribe Ruellieae Dumortier (1829: 23) when published. In fact, it is closely related to Phlogacanthus Nees von Esenbeck (1832: 76, 99) and differs only in the corolla shape and indumentum. Thus, many authors merged Cystacanthus with Phlogacanthus (Benoist 1935, Imlay 1939, Brummit 1992, Mabberley 2008). But it was still...