Rhus taitensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Anacardiaceae
Genus: Rhus
Species:
R. taitensis
Binomial name
Rhus taitensis
Synonyms

Rhus retusa Zoll. ex Engl.
Rhus rufa Teijsm. & Binn.

List sources :[2][3][4][5]

Rhus taitensis is a small tree or shrub in the sumac family of plants. It is found from tropical Asia, to Australia and many islands of the Pacific ocean.[2] The chemical tetrahydroxysqualene from dried and ground parts of R. taitensis has in vitro activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis[6] and the plant has been used in folk medicine locally to treat diarrhea and hearing loss.[7]

Distribution

The native range of R. taitensis includes Asian countries, such as Indonesia (in the Sulawesi, Irian Jaya, eastern Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, and the Moluccas), Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines; western and south central Pacific island locales, such as the Society Islands of French Polynesia[2] (the type specimens were collected from the island of Tahiti by Carlo Luigi Giuseppe Bertero and J. A. Moerenhout during an expedition described in Moerenhout's book entitled Voyages aux îles du Grand Océan),[8] Niue, Palau and others within Micronesia, and the Solomon Islands; and Australia (in northeastern Queensland).[2]

References

  1. ^  Rhus taitensis was first named and described in Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique sér. 2, 7: 361. 1837 "Plant Name Details for Rhus taitensis". IPNI. Retrieved June 12, 2011. Crescit in ins. Taiti (Bertero et Moerenh)
  2. ^ a b c d e "Rhus taitensis". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  3. ^  Rhus retusa in Monographiae Phanerogamarum 4 1883 "Plant Name Details for Rhus retusa Engl". IPNI. Retrieved May 15, 2011. Java (Zoll. Pl. jav., n. 3463 in herb. var.); Celebes, in peninsula borealis Monado (Teysm. in herb. Bogor., herb. Lugd. bat. atque herb. Monac.). Australia, Rockingham's Bay (F. von Muell. in herb. var.). [Note: Not validly published by Teysmann & Binnendijk, Cat. Pl. Hort. Bot. Bogor. (1866) 230.]
  4. ^  Rhus retusa in Catalogus Plantarum quae in Horto Botanico Bogoriensi Coluntur 230. 1866 Buitenzorg "Plant Name Details for Rhus retusa Zoll. ex Teijsm. & Binn". IPNI. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  5. ^  Rhus rufa in Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 27. 1864 "Plant Name Details for Rhus rufa". IPNI. Retrieved May 15, 2011. Monado; nom. incol. Kajoe-Kambing.
  6. ^ Noro J.C.; Barrows L.R.; Gideon O.G.; Ireland C.M.; Koch M.; Matainaho T.; Piskaut P.; Pond C.D.; Bugni T.S. (2008). "Tetrahdroxysqualene from Rhus taitensis shows antimycobacterial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis". Journal of Natural Products. 71 (9): 1623–1624. doi:10.1021/np800082e. PMC 2807728. PMID 18710283.
  7. ^ James A. Duke. "Rhus taitensis (ANACARDIACEAE)". Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  8. ^ J.A. Moerenhout (1837). Voyages aux îles du Grand Océan. Paris.

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