Cyphostemma crotalarioides

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Cyphostemma crotalarioides
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Vitales
Family: Vitaceae
Genus: Cyphostemma
Species:
C. crotalarioides
Binomial name
Cyphostemma crotalarioides
(Planch.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.

Cyphostemma crotalarioides is a flowering plant species in the genus Cyphostemma found in Burkina Faso.

Cyphostemmin A and B can be found in the root of C. crotalarioides. [1]

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References

  1. Cyphostemmins A-B, two new antifungal oligostilbenes from Cyphostemma crotalarioides (Vitaceae). Paul-Henri Ducrot, Albert Kollmann, Adil E. Bala, Amel Majira, Lucien Kerhoas, Robert Delorme and Jacques Einhorn, Tetrahedron Letters, Volume 39, Issue 52, 24 December 1998, Pages 9655–9658, doi : 10.1016/S0040-4039(98)02207-2